Fair Dealing and Copyright in Canada

Four of the Eight Fair Dealing Purposes

1. Research-

Research is the systematic investigation into and study of materials and sources in order to establish facts and reach conclusions. You may copy a article from each issue of a article for the purpose of private study or research. If you are planning on publishing your research, you are not allowed to include a copy of the article that you got the information with your publication. So you are researching for an article that you have decided to undertake, you find this site that gives you everything you need for your research article. You finally finish and decide to publish your work, the only thing you can't do is cite your source from where you got the information.

2. Education- 

Education is the process of facilitating learning, or the acquiring of knowledge, skills, values, beliefs, and habits. If an article is placed in class handout you can copy up to a full article for the purpose of education. So if a teacher wanted to pass out an article to his/hers class for an example of the work they wanted to do in class, they are allowed to copy. However, if the work is being distributed to an open audience or in a way that is not well defined such as commercial or advertisement is restricted.

3. Review- 

The analysis and judgment of a authors work. You can copy an entire article as part of a research process and include portions within your work. As part of your critique, review, or news report, you must mention the source and, if provided, list the authors or creators. So if you were to publish work and critique other sites work in your own you have to list the source and the authors or creators if given.

4. Other (public distribution, commercial use, profit, entertainment)- 

You are not allowed to use the copyright-protected work if it is not for the purpose of education, research, private study, satire, parody, criticism, review, or news reporting; OR Intended to be used for commercial activity, profit, entertainment, or public distribution. So if you would like to use music for non-educational purposes, for example, as background music,  or at a school event, licences should generally be obtained from the Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada.