Create coursepacks, share content on your college’s secure network or learning management system or display documents in class while still respecting copyright.

Under the college reproduction rights licence, you can conveniently and legally use content protected by the Copyright Act. There are four requirements that must be met:

• Check that the content is NOT on the Exclusions List
• Stay within the licence’s usage limits
• Indicate the bibliographic references for the reproduced content
• Report what you have reproduced

You can use excerpts from publications on paper or in digital format for teaching or research purposes. The following types of use are allowed:

The usage limits under your college reproduction rights licence apply per semester for the same course group. The limits depend on the type of content.

Publications developed specifically for college education purposes:

• 10% of the publication, up to a maximum of 25 pages

Any other publication in the Copibec repertoire:

• 15% of the publication

The following can also be copied under the licence:

• An article
• Newspaper or periodical page
• Song lyrics
• Short text from a collective work
• Entry from a reference book
• Image from a book, magazine or newspaper
• Chapter that is not more than 15% of the total number of pages in a book; if the publication was developed for college education purposes, the limit is 10% or 25 pages

Here are some examples of authorized content use according to your college licence:

Students are allowed to print out a paper copy of a digital format excerpt provided by a professor or instructor. They can also make a digital copy on local storage media such as a USB flash drive.

For any use that exceeds the authorized limits in your college licence, you need to get permission.

Your college reproduction rights licence gives you access to Copibec’s digital content platform called SAMUEL at no extra charge.

Copyright empowering our cultural vitality (information leaflet)

Exclusions list (college licence)