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A really great piece "Copyright FAQs for UofT Instructors" Prepared by the Centre for Teaching Support & Innovation ©2009 created by the legal firm Cassels Brock, October 2003. Segments guidelines by category of material; print,, digital, audio visual, research. Specifically for print material, up to 10% of any written copyrighted work can be copied or an entire chapter of a book if it constitutes 20% or less than the entire text. The 10% guideline however increases to 15% if students are being charged for the material being copied. [|Copyright FAQs for Instructors]

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Waterloo Copyright FAQ List of FAQ's for instructors, very practical and how it applies to you and students. Also has a link to the Canadian Copyright Act. What is of relevance to educators is the significant difference between something shown in a classroom digitally versus hard copy versus your course web site. In the classroom, instructors are given a significant amount of freedom in showing other peoples' material "//Generally, you may include other people’s works in your classroom presentations without having to get permission or pay a fee provided there’s no commercial version available. Under the educational exception in the Copyright Act, you may make copies of works to display in class on University premises for educational purposes provided there is no commercially available version of the work in a medium that is appropriate for the purpose.//" For any hard copies however the 'in classroom exception' does not apply unless it is covered by the Access copyright licence. Then to post on your course website this is restricted as "//all of these fall outside the ‘display on campus’ requirement, so you// **."** [|Copyright FAQ List]

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This article, published by Edutopia, obtained June 13, 2010, clarifies some of the issues of copyright infringement by teachers in the classroom.The article suggests that many educators have the impression that “any use of material in education is fair use” (Edutopia, June 13, 2010). According to Edutopia, “fair use in the classroom is often dependent on the subject matter of the content.A teacher may not be allowed to show the film The Lion King to the class simply because it was raining and the kids were squirrelly. It could be shown only if the class were doing a study of Disney films or were engaged in the study of a related subject” (2010). The article informs that one way around laws of copyrighting are to provide links to the websites/information that will be discussed.In addition to this, the article stresses the point that educators must realize that abiding by copyright laws is their personal responsibility and that they can be held accountable for this. [|Copyright Rules - Teachers]

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According to the Copyright Website (June 14, 2010), "the internet has been characterized as the largest threat to copyright since its inception. The internet is awash in information, much of it with varying degrees of copyright protection. Copyrighted workds on the net include news stories, software, novels, screenplays, graphics, pictures, usenet messages, and even email. In fact, the frightening reality is that almost everything on the net is protected by copyright law". The linked website provides users with generalized information on copyright laws, useful for both teachers and students. [|Copyright Website]

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