Title: Working with Copyright

*Updated: January 2025
Learning Objectives:

- Recognize when copyright is a factor when using material created by someone else
- Describe the range of ways copyright might impact use from all rights reserved to no special rights for anyone
- Understand that term length, substantiality, and a variety of exceptions to infringement aim to balance the interests of rights holders and users

Question 1

Q: “All rights reserved” in the front of a book means you can never, ever legally reproduce any part of that book.
A: false

Question 2

Q: Balance is a big deal in copyright law. What are the provisions in the Copyright Act, as a whole, attempting to balance?
- Financial compensation for authors and students needing to copy educational materials.
- Slices of cheese and measuring weights.
- Interests of rights holders and users of works that are subject to copyright protection. (correct)
- Financial compensation for rights holders and libraries needing to make copies of works for posterity.

Question 3

Q: You can legally make and share copies of a copyright-protected work under which of the following scenarios?
- When your use is supported by an exception to infringement in the Copyright Act.
- When the rights holder has given you permission to do so.
- When the amount of the work you are using is insubstantial.
- All of the responses are correct. (correct)

Question 4

Q: If something is freely available on the internet then it is in the public domain and you don’t have to worry about copyright.
A: false

Question 5

Q: Which of the following exceptions to copyright infringement is the most common and most important?
- Fair Dealing (correct)
- Educational Institutions
- Personal Desire
- Emergency Measures

Choose the correct statement.

Credits: Working with Copyright; by University of Alberta; 2022; licence CC BY 4.0