It’s Fair Dealing Week this month! From Feb 21 - 25 there are some events that you can attend for free to learn more about Fair Dealing and how it impacts education in Canada.
Here are the following events hosted across Canada:
Fair Dealing in Education: The Students’ Perspective
When: Tues Feb 22 @ 10:00am - 11:00am
Speaker: Lucie Guibault, Professor of Intellectual Property Law and Associate Director of the Law and Technology Institute, Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University
Host: Council of Atlantic University Libraries
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Best Practices for OER in Canada: A Fresh Look at Fair Dealing for Educational Use
When: Wed Feb 23 @ 10:00am - 11:00am
Speaker: Dr. Carys J. Craig, Associate Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University
Hosts: Lower Mainland Consortium (CapU, Douglas, JIBC, SFU, and UBC) and the Alberta Consortium (U of A, U of C, MRU and NAIT)
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Fair Dealing’s Future – Artificial Intelligence or Willful Ignorance?
When: Wed Feb 23 @ 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Speaker: Dr. Meera Nair, Copyright Specialist, Northern Alberta Institute of Technology
Hosts: Lower Mainland Consortium (CapU, Douglas, JIBC, SFU, and UBC) and the Alberta Consortium (U of A, U of C, MRU and NAIT)
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Fair Dealing is a provision in the Copyright Act that allows Canadians like you and me to use short excerpts of copyright-protected works without paying or asking for permission for the following purposes:
If you want to learn more about Fair Dealing, come on by the Library between February 22-25 and check out our Fair Dealing display!
And please feel free to ask the Copyright Office any copyright related questions: copyright@langara.ca