1. "Fair Dealings" protects a person when using other materials for the purposes of research, private study, criticism, review, news reporting, education, satire, and parody.
2. Under fair dealings, up to 10% of a copyright-protected work can be copied.
3. It is prohibited to share multiple excerpts from the same copyright protected work, according to copy right law.
4. A fee can be charged for using other people's work without permission but only a fee that covers the costs of the institution, including overhead costs.
5. Teachers are permitted to use copyright protected material for educational purposes, provided there are no other copyright free forms of the material needed.
6. A school is not permitted to make a large print book of copyright protected material, without the permission from the copyright owner.
7. A student or teacher is permitted to use audio or video for school projects as long as they follow specific rules. For example, it must take place on the premises of an educational institution; it must be for educational or training purposes; it must not be for profit; it must take place before an audience consisting primarily of students of the educational institution, persons acting under its authority, or any person who is directly responsible for setting a curriculum for the educational institution; and it must not involve a “motive of gain.“
8. It is allowed to preform a play that is copyrighted in the case that it is for a drama class, as long as the requirements previously stated involving audio or video usage is met as well. You are, under The Copyright Act permitted to use copyright protected music in performance in educational institutions. As long as the material is used for educational purposes, not for profit, and preformed in front of primarily members of an educational environment, it is permitted.
9. Schools cannot legally play copyrighted music at their dances or sporting events, without permission from SOCAN. This is the case because there is often a profit being made by the schools for these events, that is not being given to the original owner. A license can be obtained for these purposes.
10. If the answer is yes to the majority of the following questions, then the video or music use is permitted by The Copyright Act:
Did the music use occur during school hours?
Will the student be graded on the activity involving the music use?
Does the music use involve a demonstration by a student or teacher for other students, teachers, assessors, or parents?
Is it reasonable to consider the music use to be for educational purposes?
Was the music used on school premises?
If admission was controlled, was it free?
Was the music use for a non-profit purpose?
11. Anyone is permitted to use other's copyright protected material to create new works under the Copyright Act. Although, this is only acceptable provided they follow the rules:
- It can only be used for non-commercial purposes.
- The original source must be mentioned, if it is reasonable to do so.
- The original work used to generate the content must have been acquired legally.
- The resulting user-generated content does not have a “substantial adverse effect” on the market for the original work
12. A teacher or student is allowed to show a bought, or rented DVD in class, as long as the DVD is not an infringement copy of the original. It must be legally obtained.
13. It is illegal to copy a show or movie at home, to show at school. It is not permitted for teachers or students to do so, unless the DVD is obtained legally through rental, bought, or borrowed, they are not allowed by the Copyright Act, to show it in a classroom.
14. The owners of computer programs are allowed to make a single copy of these programs in the event of two situations:
An owner of a legitimate copy of a computer program may make one backup copy of that program. The person must be able to prove that the backup copy is erased as soon as he or she ceases to be the owner of the copy of the computer program from which the backup was made.
An owner of a legitimate copy of a computer program may also make a single copy of that program by adapting, modifying, or converting the computer program or translating it into another computer language, provided that: (i) the reproduction is essential for the compatibility of the program with a particular computer; (ii) the reproduction is solely for the person’s own use; and (iii) the copy is erased when the person ceases to be the owner of the copy of the program from which the copy was made.
15. Teachers and students are permitted to copy from the internet. There are a few basic rules including citing the source of your material, and using materials that are publicly available online.
16. Any original work I create in school is copyright protected. Knowing this, I feel safer about what I am creating, being aware that it is protected online, and made illegal to be copied. Although, it does make me wonder how this is effective, because I do know it is quite simple to copy a person's work, without anyone really noticing if the persons work is not popular. Therefore, I wonder how my work being protected is relevant, if there is nothing actually done in the situation that it is copied.
17. Keenan, G. (2016). Demystifying Copyright: The Way Down. New Brunswick: The Blackville, Young Writers Association. ISBN: 0-2-25746-098-1, $22.22
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