fair dealing

Fair Dealing Week highlights critical component of affordable, rigorous university education

Campaign draws attention to important copyright exception that balances user and creator rights to accommodate freedom of speech and expression

Fair Dealing and Copyright at uOttawa: A Guide for Professors, Researchers, and Students to mark Fair Dealing Week 2024

Canadian copyright law provides a framework to protect the rights of creators while also balancing these with the needs of users to access and make use of materials. One crucial aspect of this delicate balance is the concept of fair dealing, which allows uses of materials subject to copyright without the need for permission, as long as the dealing is considered fair.

Read more: https://www.uottawa.ca/library/news-all/fair-dealing-copyright-university-ottawa

Navigating Copyright: Unveiling the Power of Fair Dealing at uOttawa

Fair Dealing Week Teams Presentation: Feb 27, 1:30–2:30 p.m.

Fair Dealing is a provision and user right within the Canadian Copyright Act, permitting the reproduction of material subject to copyright under specific circumstances without requiring permission from the copyright holder. It is also a process that holds the potential to empower faculty, researchers, and students alike to exercise their intellectual and creative freedom and use materials with more confidence and less worry.

Join Thomas Rouleau, Senior Manager, Copyright Services and Andrea Lobel, Copyright Services Librarian, as they explain Fair Dealing and its importance within Canadian copyright law. In this presentation, you will also learn how to empower yourself to effectively navigate this aspect of the copyright landscape at uOttawa. Don’t miss this opportunity to enhance your understanding of Fair Dealing, and learn how to apply it to your research, teaching, and writing.

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Fair Dealing Week 2024

Leeds Beckett University

By Library and Student Services | 05 February 2024

What is Fair Dealing? You might also have heard the term “Fair Use”, the equivalent legal term in the USA. Whenever you’re using copyrighted material, whether it’s with the permission of the copyright holder or under an exemption, your use must be “Fair Dealing” – namely the amount you’re using has to feel fair to the copyright holder. For example, using a whole copyrighted journal article as part of an academic work probably wouldn’t be fair to the copyright holder. Using sections of an author’s argument to convey their position, referring it to wider scholarship or developing your own argument in response to their position, would probably be fair use.

Read More: https://www.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/blogs/library/2024/02/fair-dealing-week-2024/

Webinar: Leveraging Best Practices: Using the CARL Copyright Codes of Best Practice in your library // Webinaire : Optimisation des meilleures pratiques : Utilisation des codes de meilleures pratiques de l’ABRC en matière de droits d’auteur dans votre bib

The Supreme Court of Canada has repeatedly confirmed that fair dealing is a users’ right that should be given a large and liberal interpretation. Nonetheless, there remains unease and “chill” when it comes to applying it in libraries. CARL’s codes of best practice are intended to encourage an interpretation of fair dealing consistent with that of our highest court and build a shared capacity to apply the principles and limitations of fair dealing to the work of research libraries in Canada.

Faced with similar uncertainty related to the scope of fair use, U.S. scholars spearheaded the creation of Codes of Best Practices for Fair Use, which have since been created for a variety communities of practice to “demystify fair use for specific user groups without unduly limiting the flexibility that gives the fair use doctrine its strength and have helped lawyers and gatekeepers understand important user norms.” Recognizing the value of these works, members of the Canadian copyright and library communities developed Canadian codes, whether through adaptation or original work, for use in Canada. The Codes provide Canadian legislative and legal context to common situations that practitioners encounter in their work where copyright and fair dealing are relevant. They establish judicious best practices in the application of fair dealing to specific activities.

Join this panel discussion to learn more about the Canadian Codes of Best Practice in Fair Dealing for Software Preservation, Open Educational Resources, and Crown Copyright.

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Optimisation des meilleures pratiques : Utilisation des codes de meilleures pratiques de l’ABRC en matière de droits d’auteur dans votre bibliothèque

Date : Mercredi 28 février 2024
Heure : 13 h à 14 h 30 HE
Inscription requise

La Cour suprême du Canada a confirmé à plusieurs reprises que l’utilisation équitable est un droit des utilisateurs qui devrait faire l’objet d’une interprétation large et libérale. Néanmoins, il persiste un malaise et un “gel” lorsqu’il s’agit de l’appliquer dans les bibliothèques. Les codes de meilleures pratiques de l’ABRC visent à encourager une interprétation de l’utilisation équitable conforme à celle de notre plus haute cour et à développer une capacité partagée à appliquer les principes et les limites de l’utilisation équitable au travail des bibliothèques de recherche au Canada.

Confrontés à une incertitude similaire concernant la portée de l’utilisation équitable (États-Unis), des chercheurs américains ont été à l’origine de la création de codes de meilleures pratiques pour l’utilisation équitable, qui ont depuis été élaborés pour différentes communautés de pratique afin de “[trad.]démystifier l’utilisation équitable pour des groupes d’utilisateurs spécifiques sans limiter indûment la flexibilité qui confère à la doctrine de l’utilisation équitable sa force et a aidé les avocats et les gardiens à comprendre les normes d’utilisation importantes”. Reconnaissant la valeur de ces travaux, les membres des communautés canadiennes du droit d’auteur et des bibliothèques ont élaboré des codes canadiens, que ce soit par adaptation ou par travail original, pour une utilisation au Canada. Les codes fournissent un contexte législatif et juridique canadien aux situations courantes que rencontrent les praticiens dans leur travail où le droit d’auteur et l’utilisation équitable sont pertinents. Ils établissent de meilleures pratiques judicieuses dans l’application de l’utilisation équitable à des activités spécifiques.

Joignez-vous à cette discussion pour en savoir plus sur les Codes canadiens de meilleures pratiques en matière d’utilisation équitable pour la préservation des logiciels, les ressources éducatives libres et les droits d’auteur de la Couronne.

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Fair Use/Fair Dealing Week Day 3 Roundup

This year, libraries, universities, and civil society groups celebrate Fair Use/Fair Dealing Week February 21–25.

Fair use (in the US) and fair dealing (in Canada and other jurisdictions) is a right that allows the use of copyrighted materials without permission from the copyright holder under certain circumstances. Association of Research Libraries (ARL) President K. Matthew Dames, the Edward H. Arnold University Librarian for the University of Notre Dame, says of fair use: “Fair use is an indispensable tool allowing librarians, researchers, journalists, and the public to access and use copyrighted original sources, which is critical to understanding the truth of any issue. Along with rights that Congress specifically granted to libraries, fair use propels the advancement of culture and knowledge, which is the fundamental purpose of copyright.”

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Fair Use/Fair Dealing Week Day 2 Roundup

This year, libraries, universities, and civil society groups celebrate Fair Use/Fair Dealing Week February 21–25.

Fair use (in the US) and fair dealing (in Canada and other jurisdictions) is a right that allows the use of copyrighted materials without permission from the copyright holder under certain circumstances. Association of Research Libraries (ARL) President K. Matthew Dames, the Edward H. Arnold University Librarian for the University of Notre Dame, says of fair use: “Fair use is an indispensable tool allowing librarians, researchers, journalists, and the public to access and use copyrighted original sources, which is critical to understanding the truth of any issue. Along with rights that Congress specifically granted to libraries, fair use propels the advancement of culture and knowledge, which is the fundamental purpose of copyright.”

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Fair Use/Fair Dealing Week Day 1 Roundup

This year, libraries, universities, and civil society groups celebrate Fair Use/Fair Dealing Week February 21–25.

Fair use (in the US) and fair dealing (in Canada and other jurisdictions) is a right that allows the use of copyrighted materials without permission from the copyright holder under certain circumstances. Association of Research Libraries (ARL) President K. Matthew Dames, the Edward H. Arnold University Librarian for the University of Notre Dame, says of fair use: “Fair use is an indispensable tool allowing librarians, researchers, journalists, and the public to access and use copyrighted original sources, which is critical to understanding the truth of any issue. Along with rights that Congress specifically granted to libraries, fair use propels the advancement of culture and knowledge, which is the fundamental purpose of copyright.”

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