Copyright at Lambton

Under Lambton College copyright guidelines, faculty may use handouts, eBooks, videos, chapters from an OER, and many more resource materials in the classroom. It is important to remember that these guidelines are for solely for educational purposes in an educational setting. Please use the guide below for your copyrights as an educator in an educational institution.  

Instructors for Lambton College courses may communicate and reproduce, in paper or electronic form, “short excerpts” from a copyright-protected work to their students in a classroom or through their course-assigned D2L. 

Copying or communicating short excerpts from a copyright-protected work under this Fair Dealing Policy for any reason must mention the source and, if given in the source, the name of the author or creator of the work. 

A short excerpt means: 

• Up to 10% of a copyright-protected work (including a literary work, musical score, sound recording, and an audiovisual work) 
• Up to 10% or 1 chapter of a print or electronic book or textbook 
• A single article from a scholarly journal, magazine, newspaper, or other periodical 
• An entire artistic work (including a painting, print, photograph, diagram, drawing, map, chart, and plan) from a copyright-protected work containing other artistic works 
• An entire single poem or musical score from a copyright-protected work containing other poems or musical scores 
• An entire entry from an encyclopedia, annotated bibliography, dictionary or similar reference work

A single copy of a short excerpt from a copyright-protected work may be provided or communicated to each student enrolled in a class or course as: 

• A class handout 
• A posting to a learning or course management system that is password protected or otherwise restricted to students of a school or post-secondary educational institution 
• Part of a course pack 

Copying or communicating multiple short excerpts from the same copyright-protected work, with the intention of copying or communicating substantially the entire work, is prohibited. 

An evaluation of whether the proposed copying or communication is permitted under fair dealing will be made based on all relevant circumstances (see Fair Dealing Factors). 

All copies, including the original source, must be legally obtained. Duplicating illegal copies is prohibited by law.  

In an online environment, all materials may only be shared in a Learning Management System (LMS). At Lambton, post to D2L.