Title: Including Third Party Content in Your Work

Learning objectives for this module
- Outline the two key questions you should consider when determining how to incorporate third party content into your work
- Locate and identify the licence terms or other terms of use for third party content you are interested in using
- Determine how and when you may use works for which the copyright is held by others

Q: As long as you credit the creator, you can use anyone else’s work as part of your own.
A: false

Q: Only a court of law can determine if your use of third party content is actually “fair dealing.”
A: true

Q: If a rights holder does not want you to use their content as part of your own work, you can evaluate whether or not the use might be permitted…
- ...as fair dealing (correct)
- …because it encourages market competition
- …as long as you don’t make a profit
- …if they never find out about it

Q: Which of these is not one of the two key questions to consider when evaluating the use of third party content?
- Does the original work appear in a Google search result? (correct)
- Does the Copyright Act permit my use of the work?
- Is the rights holder okay with me using the work?

Q: You can use any content offered under any type of Creative Commons licence any way you like.
A: false

Q: The rights holder for a work is always the original author or creator.
A: false

Q: Which of these is NOT considered an exception to copyright infringement (or “users’ right”)?
- Breaking a digital lock to improve accessibility to a work (correct)
- Certain uses by educational institutions
- Conversion of text into Braille
- Some user-generated content for non-commercial use

Choose the correct statement.

Credits: Including Third Party Content in Your Work; by University of Alberta; 2019; licence CC BY 4.0