Copyright and Fair Dealing for Schools

Copyright and Fair Dealing for Schools
Posted on 09/13/2024
Poster of Copyright and Fair Dealing for SchoolsThere is a great on-line resource to help teachers determine whether fair dealing permits them to use short excerpts from copyright-protected materials for the students in their classrooms.

Link to FairDealingDecisionTool.ca, 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 needing to obtain copyright permission.

It takes 30 seconds on FairDealingDecisionTool.ca to have your copyright question answered. By clicking through this user-friendly resource, you will know whether the use of a short excerpt from a copyright-protected work is “fair.”

Download the Fair Dealing Guidelines color poster here