Handouts (Digital Copies)

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  1. Fair Dealing Guidelines Summary
  2. Citing Examples
  3. Case Studies
  4. Government Publications

The decision from the Supreme Court of Canada in the case Alberta (Education) v. Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency (Access Copyright), 2012 SCC37, expanded Fair Dealing to include the distribution of handouts: reproductions of short excerpts from published works that faculty distribute to students. Handouts are intended to supplement required or core course materials.

In an effort to establish a learning environment that is technologically neutral, short excerpts that adhere to the Fair Dealing Guidelines may be communicated to students via FOL as digital handouts. The short excerpt must represent a fair amount of its original source and the original source of the short excerpt must be cited (citing examples are below). Permission from the copyright owner is required in order to reproduce and communicate anything that exceeds the limits of the Fair Dealing Guidelines.

Digital handouts that adhere to the Fair Dealing Guidelines can remain within an FOL course site as long as access to that course site is restricted only to the faculty member responsible for the facilitation of that course, within 30 days of the course’s final marks being released.

Submit your digital handout to the Copyright Management System if: 1) you're not sure if it adheres to the Fair Dealing Policy, 2) the permission from the copyright owner is needed, 3) you want the restriction of access managed for you

1. Fair Dealing Guidelines Summary

The complete Fair Dealing Guidelines can be found in Addendum Standard 1 of Policy A204: Copyright.

Fair dealing guidelines include short excerpts of: upto 10% of a work, or 1 entire chapter, or 1 entire article, or 1 entire short story/play/poem/essay, or 1 entire reporduction of an artistic work, or 1 single musical score. May be photocopied & distributed to students in the classroom AND may be scanned and uploaded to FOL. The condition: acknowledge the source of the content! *Systematic andcumulative copying is infringement*

Regarding the Application of the Fair Dealing Guidelines:

Reproducing up to 10% of a book’s total page count is likely to be considered fair but if you’ve reproduced an entire chapter from a book and that chapter constitutes 7% of the book’s total page count, it would not be fair to reproduce an additional 3% in order to reach 10% as that chapter would be considered a complete portion of the work and any additional portions would require permission from the copyright owner.

Periodicals like newspapers, magazines, and scholarly journals are published daily, weekly, monthly, and seasonally. The use of multiple articles from the same periodical title is likely to be considered fair if each article comes from a different issue or volume of that periodical.

The Fair Dealing Guidelines endure for the duration of the course you’re teaching or the project you’re working on. Reproducing 10% of a work one week and an additional 10% from the same work the next week would be considered systematic and cumulative copying which would constitute copyright infringement.

If your needs exceed what the Fair Dealing Guidelines suggest, contact the Copyright Services Officer for assistance with the permission seeking process or alternatives.

2. Citing Examples

The Attribution Right requires the acknowledgment of the source and content creator whenever a work, in whole or in part, is used.

  • Acknowledge the source and content creator when using a short excerpt from a book:

Image of pages with "From 'Book Title' by Author. Chapter 4" on it

  • Acknowledging the source and content creator when using a short excerpt from a periodical:

image of a periodical page with "From 'Peridical Title', Date of Issue, by Author." on it

  • Acknowledging the source and content creator when using text from an online source:

image with "From 'Website title' by Author (if mentioned), URL." on it

  • Acknowledging the source and content creator when using an image from an online source in a handout whose text you wrote:

Shows page with an arrow pointing to an image, reads "Title of Image (if mentioned), Artist (if mentioned), URL" on it

  • Acknowledging the source and content creator when using an image from an online source or a printed source:

for an image use either "Title of Image (if mentioned), Artist (if mentioned), URL." or "Title of Image (if mentioned), Artist (if mentioned), Title of Print Source."

More information on images from online sources is available on the Projections & Presentation Slides page under Copyright in the Classroom and on the Digital Imagery page under Copyright & FOL.

3. Case Studies

Class sets of Harvard and Ivey Business Case Studies have to be purchased and they cannot be reproduced or communicated to students through FanshaweOnline. Here are some great online resources that offer case studies whose use is free and unrestricted:

4. Government Publications

Provincial Government Publications

Provincial print and online materials are protected by Crown Copyright which is held by the Queen’s Printer for Ontario. These materials can be reproduced for education and training-related purposes as long as the following conditions are met:

  • Credit the Provincial Government Publication
  • Acknowledge Crown Copyright
  • Acknowledge that the reproduction is not the official version

Example:

Example of written acknowledgement for provincial government publications

Federal Government Publications

Federal print and online materials are produced and compiled by the Government of Canada and are protected by Crown Copyright. They can be reproduced for education and training-related purposes as long as the following conditions are met:

  • Identify the Government of Canada as the source
  • Acknowledge Crown Copyright
  • Acknowledge that the reproduction is not the official version

Example:

Example of written acknowledgement for federal government publications