Canadian Copyright law and NAIT’s Access Copyright license dictate how much may be copied from a copyrighted work.
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The following sections summarize NAIT’s Access Copyright license provisions for staff, including:
Under NAIT’s license, different copying limits apply depending on whether copies are provided at no cost for students and staff, or whether copies are made and sold to students and staff.
For copies provided at no cost, up to 10% of published work may be copied. Such copying includes, but is not limited to, copies made for free distribution in classes, for library reserve, or for inter-library loan to other university or non-profit libraries.
For copies compiled and sold to students, up to 15% (does not include textbooks) of a published work may be copied under this license. This type of copying usually includes, but is not limited to, course materials sold by NAIT to students and copying for distance education. Royalties are paid to Access Copyright on a per page, per copy basis, and bibliographic information must be submitted according to the schedule in NAIT’s license agreement. Permission must be obtained or an eLog must be filled out prior to printing for materials that are not covered by license.
Materials published in Canada, Australia, Denmark, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Malta, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States may be copied.
Systematic, cumulative copying is prohibited. That means that you may not copy 10% of a publication one day, then another 10% the next day, and so on until most or all of the publication is copied.
Specific restrictions also apply to the inclusion of the textbook extracts into coursepacks. Up to 5% of a textbook or a single chapter may be copied, whichever is less. In a coursepack, there may be no more than two extracts copied from a textbook written by the same author and published by the same publisher within any five-year period. Restrictions also apply to the proportion of textbook pages in a coursepack: no more than 50% of the pages in the coursepack can be taken from textbooks.
NAIT’s license agreement is limited to copying that results in a paper copy. NAIT’s Access Copyright License does not provide the freedom to convert print materials to CD-ROMs or secure Internet sites such as WebCT.
Other works not covered under NAIT’s license include:
Publications from specific rightsholders may also be excluded from copying. Please consult NAIT’s license agreement for the current list. To obtain permission to copy these works, permission must be obtained from the copyright owner directly. Access Copyright may be able to help you with your request.
Out of print works that are not commercially available may be copied with approval by Access Copyright.
Access Copyright distributes royalties collected for photocopying to creators and publishers whose works are copied under license. Bibliographic detail and volume of copies made for sale to students must be submitted to Access Copyright according to the schedule in NAIT’s license agreement