The University Libraries recognize Fair Use/Fair Dealing Week 2021 as an important opportunity for the campus community to learn more about the Fair Use doctrine. Test your knowledge by taking our new interactive quiz, “Is it Fair Use? It Depends!“
IS YOUR COPYING FAIR DEALING?
Use this tool as a guideline to help determine whether the fair dealing exception in the Copyright Act may apply to your copying.
Learn more: https://library.rrc.ca/fairdealingtool?_ga=2.158720762.1928739084.1614115833-406212080.1614115833
What is Fair Use???
Fair Use: Section 107 of the U.S. Code
Fair use is the use of copyrighted material, without the holder’s permission, for purposes such as teaching, preparation for teaching, scholarship, research, criticism/comment/parody and news reporting.
Read the LibGuide: https://libguides.library.albany.edu/c.php?g=560782&p=3858865
This Fair Use/Fair Dealing Week, we’re featuring a selection of resources and articles to help authors understand and apply fair use.
Learn more: https://www.authorsalliance.org/2021/02/23/fair-use-week-2021-resource-roundup/
Under the Copyright Act, express permission of the copyright owner is required before making copies or distributing works, with some exceptions. These guidelines outline the framework for operating under one of these exceptions – “fair dealing” for the purposes of research, private study, review, criticism or news reporting, education, parody and satire. These guidelines outline the limits and requirements for making paper and electronic copies of a portion of a published work by individuals for their own use, by faculty for use in their courses of study and by libraries for the use of their patrons.
Learn more: https://libraries.dal.ca/services/copyright-office/fair-dealing/fair-dealing-guidelines.html
Authors Alliance is gathering feedback from authors about Controlled Digital Lending (“CDL”) in order to strengthen our advocacy work and better represent your interests. Several of our members have already shared their views on how CDL helps authors and researchers, and we are now asking you to add your voice by completing this short form.
Learn more: https://www.authorsalliance.org/2021/02/22/call-to-action-share-why-you-support-controlled-digital-lending/
In this paper, we argue that while fair dealing is not a carbon copy of fair use, it is similar enough that many of the principles and limitations set out in the many codes of best practices in fair use published in the United States would be applicable in the Canadian context.
You probably make use of fair dealing every day without even realizing it! Whether emailing a news article to a friend, using a clip from a song, using a copyrighted image on social media, or quoting passages from a book when writing an essay. Activities such as these are not considered to be copyright infringement – in fact, the ability for users to make copies for specific purposes is an integral part of the Canadian Copyright Act.
Every year libraries and educational institutions across North America celebrate the rules that allow sharing of portions of published works for research and education.
In celebration of Fair Dealing Week 2021 you’re invited to enter our Virtual Escape Room.
Learn more: https://lib.unb.ca/news/virtual-escape-room-fair-dealing-week-edition
Fair Use Week 2021: Promoting Ideas, Creativity, Learning and Culture
By Kristy Padron, MLIS
Scholarly Communication Services Coordinator
Fair Use Week is February 22 – 26, 2021. The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) designated this time to highlight and promote what fair use allows us to do with copyrighted works.
