1. Copy “Right” @ McMaster
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Anne Pottier & Sarah O’Byrne
May 15, 2013

2. Nothing in this presentation constitutes legal advice.
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constitutes legal advice.

3. Outline What has changed regarding © at MAC
Copyright Modernization Act
Fair dealing policy
Access Copyright agreement
What you need to know about © when:
Selecting course materials
Setting up a course website
Presenting in the classroom
Questions

4. What’s New
March 1, 2012 – Board of Governors approved Fair Dealing Policy
June 25, 2012 – MAC signs license with Access Copyright
June 29, 2012 – Copyright Modernization Act receives Royal Assent (i.e. becomes law – but is not yet in effect). It is at the order-in-council process.
July 12, 2012 – Supreme Court hands down 5 copyright judgments, affirming fair dealing
October 9, 2012 – AUCC produces revised Fair Dealing Guidelines

5. Copyright Modernization Act
Key changes for Educational Institutions:
Fair Dealing Exception:
The fair dealing exception includes three new purposes: education, parody or satire. This expands the existing exceptions: research and private study, criticism, review and news reporting.
It expands fair dealing to recognize education in a structured context as a legitimate purpose.

6. NB: Can use someone’s work under fair dealing, provided that the use of the work is ‘fair’. Whether something is 'fair' will depend on the circumstances, including the amount used, the character and purpose of the use, the nature of the work, the effect of the use on the work and whether there were any appropriate alternatives. (CCH Canada Ltd. V. Law Society of Upper Canada)

7. Copyright Modernization Act
Expanded Educational Exceptions:
reproduce a work, or do any other necessary act, in order to display it (for the purposes of education or training on its premises);
perform a film or other cinematographic work in the classroom, as long as such work is not an infringing copy and was legally obtained; and

8. reproduce, communicate by telecommunication and perform for students, legitimately posted works that are available through the Internet, provided that the source and author are attributed, unless:
the works are protected by “digital locks”;
a clearly visible notice (and not merely the copyright symbol alone) prohibiting such act is posted on the website or on the work itself; or
the educational institution knows or should have known that the works are available on the Internet in violation of the copyright owner’s rights.

9. Lessons by Telecommunication
An educational institution for the purposes of education or training may communicate lessons via telecommunication and distance learning to students enrolled in the course and record such lessons.
The student can also make a copy of such telecommunicated lesson to be viewed or listened to at a later time, provided that:
- the student and the institution must destroy the recording or copy within 30 days after receipt by students of their final course evaluations;
- the institution must take measures to limit the audience to students only, and to protect the lesson itself

10. Fair Dealing Policy
The Fair Dealing policy was adopted by all AUCC members; it was approved by both Senate and BOG
This policy outlines the copying of published works that can be made in print or electronic format by a university through its staff and faculty members under the exception for fair dealing in sections 29 to 29.2 of the Copyright Act, without seeking permission of the copyright owner.
The Fair Dealing policy does not address exceptions in the Copyright Act other than fair dealing.

11. Fair Dealing Policy - continued
The Fair Dealing policy does not restrict any copying our institution is permitted to do under arrangements we may have with publishers – eg. CRKN licenses
Where there is a conflict between the terms of a license agreement and the FD Policy, the terms of the license agreement apply
The Fair Dealing policy permits the making of copies, in paper or electronic form, of short excerpts from copyright-protected work for the purposes of research, private study, criticism, review, news reporting, education, satire or parody.

12. Fair Dealing Policy - continued
Copying or communicating short excerpts for the purpose of news reporting, criticism or review must mention the source, and if given in the source, the name of the author or creator of the work.
A copy of a short excerpt may be provided or communicated to each student enrolled in a class or course as a class handout, a posting to content management system (as long as access is restricted to students of the university) or as part of a course pack
Some examples of a short excerpt : a single article from a journal, one chapter from a book, up to 10% of a copyright-protected work

13. Fair Dealing Policy - continued
The Fair Dealing policy asks that each institution appoint a person who will make decisions on whether copying outside the scope of the copying guidelines are for one of the fair dealing purposes of research, private study, review, criticism or new reporting, and in all the circumstances, whether the making of the copies is fair.
We currently have a Copyright Working Group which works together to make these decisions

14. Access Copyright Agreement
Access Copyright is a not-for-profit collective society that represents the reproduction rights of rights holders, and grants licenses for the use of copyright-protected published works.
AC filed a tariff with the Copyright Board of Canada, the Access Copyright Post-Secondary Educational Institutions Tariff, , to cover the reproduction of published works by post-secondary educational institutions across Canada, excluding Quebec.

15. Access Copyright Agreement - continued
This agreement permits institutions to legally reproduce copyright-protected works in ways that would be outside the scope of fair dealing, or any other applicable exception, under the Copyright Act.
The term of this agreement is from January 1, 2011 to December 31, 2015.
Must check both the AC Inclusions List (print) and Inclusions List (digital) to see if the content is included in their repertoire

16. Access Copyright Agreement - continued
For published works in Access Copyright’s repertoire, you can:
Photocopy, fax, scan and print
Store copies, such as on a hard drive, USB or secure network
Transmit by , upload or post copies within a secure network
Project and display copies – eg. Overheads, monitors, interactive whiteboards
Make copies for purposes of interlibrary loan, creating alternate format copies and managing library collections
Create course collections (paper copies of published works assembled into coursepacks or digital copies of published works that are ed, linked, posted on, uploaded to or stored on a secure network)

17. Access Copyright Agreement - continued
You may copy up to 10% of a repertoire work or make a copy of a repertoire work that is:
An entire article, short story, play, essay or poem
An entire article or page from a newspaper or periodical
An entire entry from an encyclopedia or similar reference work
One chapter of a book, provided that the chapter is no more than 20% of that book
You may copy up to 20% of a repertoire work or any of the above for a Course Collection and for certain library collection management purposes

18. What Does All This Mean For You?
Selecting Course Material
Print reserves – instructors are welcome to place ONE copy of a textbook on reserve, but this must be an instructors copy, since the library does not purchase textbooks
Instructors may also place an article or a chapter of a book on reserve
The preferred method is to create a reading list with
embedded durable links which will
take students directly to the content

19. What Does All This Mean For You?
Coursepacks – the staff in the Custom Courseware department determine whether the material you have requested is covered by either our Access Copyright agreement or Fair Dealing Policy and submit all necessary records to Access Copyright. For materials not covered by either of these, they will arrange transactional permissions with the publisher or author, and pay any required royalties.
NB: the sooner you get your requests
in the more likely your coursepacks will
be ready when term starts!

20. What Does All This Mean For You?
Avenue to Learn – under the current Access Copyright agreement you are permitted to post articles, etc to A2L or other course websites accessible only to students in a specific course
NB: our AC agreement expires in At this time we cannot predict whether we would renew this agreement or choose to manage all copyright requests internally.
We would recommend the use of durable
links to make future transition easier.

21. What Does All This Mean For You?
Instructors Own Materials
Posting an instructors work on Avenue to Learn
✓ Can post an instructors own original materials on Avenue to Learn provided s/he still holds the copyright or have retained the right to post online - e.g.
Course notes and outlines
Slides (if third party © material is included, it will likely be covered by fair dealing, new Copyright Act amendments or Access licence)
✓ An instructors own articles, if s/he has retained the right – they should check their publishing agreements

22. What Does All This Mean For You?
Website Materials
Can post internet materials to Avenue to Learn if:
The website & author are identified
The material is not protected by a ‘technological protection measure’ (e.g. password protection)
There is no ‘clearly visible notice’ prohibiting educational use
The work has been posted legitimately

23. Your Checklist
✓ Has the material been posted legitimately (i.e. by the or with the consent of the © owner)?
✓ There is no clearly visible notice prohibiting you from reproducing the content for educational use?
✓ There is no technological protection measure preventing access to the material or preventing copying of the material?
✓ You have acknowledged the author & website

24. Post or Link to Journal Articles
You need to... Provide links to articles, e-Resources and Library Catalogue records in Avenue and other course Web pages that are stable over time and will work both on and off campus.
The problem: Adding links the usual way (copying and pasting the URL that appears in your browser) doesn't always work since those URLs often contain variables that change every time the article or e-Resource is accessed. Also, the URLs you copy from your browser do not contain the code necessary to make off-campus access possible.
The Solution: Use Digital Object Identifiers (DOI) or Persistent URLs and the information contained on these pages to create links that work!

25. Public Domain Material
Material in which the © term has expired
© expires 50 years after the author dies
Government Material
Posting on Avenue to Learn:
Canadian government
Ontario government
US government
Must acknowledge the government as the author/source of the material

26. Presenting in the Classroom
What instructors can do
Display materials in class (ie. power point slides)
Play sound recording
Play films (new)
Copy news programs and news commentary programs at time of broad cast and play in class (new)

27. Playing Films
Media booked through the CAVS [usually Interfilm] does not need to be reported, since that is part of the booking process
Otherwise if not covered by the above……playing excerpts may be covered by fair dealing, but playing the entire film is likely not covered

28. Who to Contact Avenue2Learn Courseware Legal Library MPS / Printsmart
Centre for Leadership in Learning (CLL)
extension 24540
Courseware
Donna Shapiro / Director, Titles Bookstore
extension 27445
Legal
Sarah O’Byrne / Copyright Officer
extension 28640
Library
Anne Pottier / Associate University Librarian
extension 22410
MPS / Printsmart
Phil Poelmans / Manager, Media Production Services
extension 24892

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