Teachers, Copyright, and Fair Dealing – Know your rights and know your limits!
Thinking of using a short excerpt from a copyright-protected work in your classroom? First, find out if you need permission from the copyright owner. The Fair Dealing Decision Tool helps teachers decide, with just a few clicks, whether fair dealing permits classroom use of short excerpts from print materials, artistic works, or audiovisual materials without needing to obtain copyright permission.
It takes 30 seconds on FairDealingDecisionTool.ca to determine if the intended use is fair dealing. This site helps teachers decide, with a few clicks, whether the fair-dealing provision in the Copyright Act permits copying of short excerpts from print materials, artistic works, or audiovisual materials for students without having to get copyright permission.
Every teacher should bookmark the Fair Dealing Decision Tool: www.FairDealingDecisionTool.ca
Additional documentation regarding CSBA advocacy efforts for Fair Dealing:
- Why Fair Dealing is Not Destroying Canada Publishing
- Summary Position
- A CSBA letter to Honourable Joly and Honourable Bains where we specifically defend fair dealing – the right for educators to use copyright protected material at no costs.
- A CSBA letter outlining and addressing the proposed options made by the Copyright Review Board of Canada.