Title: Including Third-Party Content in Your Work

*Updated: January 2024
Learning Objectives:

- 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

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

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

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

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

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…

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

Which of these is not one of the two key questions to consider when evaluating the use of third-party content?

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?

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

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

The rights holder for a work is always the original author or creator.

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

Which of these is NOT considered an exception to copyright infringement (or a “user’s right”)?

Q: Which of these is NOT considered an exception to copyright infringement (or a “user's 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