UM Todaycopyright guidelines – UM Today https://umtoday-wordpress.ad.umanitoba.ca Your Source for University of Manitoba News Tue, 27 Jan 2026 15:13:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 Sharing Course Materials? Know the Guidelines https://umtoday-wordpress.ad.umanitoba.ca/sharing-course-materials-know-the-guidelines/ https://umtoday-wordpress.ad.umanitoba.ca/sharing-course-materials-know-the-guidelines/#respond Fri, 20 Jun 2025 13:39:30 +0000 https://news.umanitoba.ca/?p=218640 The Copyright Office has updated UM's copyright guidelines to clarify the appropriate use of course materials created by faculty and instructors.]]> Professors and instructors at UM work hard to create high-quality resources for student learning — PowerPoints, handouts, recorded lectures, and more. These materials are protected by copyright and meant for students’ personal study and academic success.

To help clarify what can and can’t be shared, the Copyright Office has updated the UM copyright guidelines. These updates are here to support students in making informed choices.

The university is committed to supporting a respectful academic environment and protecting the rights of professors, instructors and fellow students. 

Please remember: sharing, recording or uploading course content without permission — including distributing lecture materials or recordings without permission — is not allowed and may have serious consequences under UM’s Student Discipline and Misconduct procedures.

For more information, please review the Student Non-Academic Misconduct and Concerning Behaviour Procedure and the Student Discipline Bylaw.

Questions about copying?

If you are in doubt about the copyright status of materials, the Copyright Office can assist with clarifying what can be copied or how to get permission.

Contact the Copyright Office before you copy at um.copyright@umanitoba.ca or 204-474-7277.

Learn more about copyright.

 

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]]> https://umtoday-wordpress.ad.umanitoba.ca/sharing-course-materials-know-the-guidelines/feed/ 0 Updated UM copyright guidelines add clarity for faculty, students https://umtoday-wordpress.ad.umanitoba.ca/updated-um-copyright-guidelines-add-clarity-for-faculty-students/ https://umtoday-wordpress.ad.umanitoba.ca/updated-um-copyright-guidelines-add-clarity-for-faculty-students/#respond Fri, 13 Jun 2025 15:00:31 +0000 https://news.umanitoba.ca/?p=217994 UM’s newly revised Copyright Guidelines help faculty, staff and students determine what may be legally copied or shared. The updated guidelines better reflect the internal practice at UM and provide greater context about the steps taken to determine whether or not you can or should use Fair Dealing.  ]]> UM’s newly revised Copyright Guidelines help faculty, staff and students determine what may be legally copied or shared. The updated guidelines better reflect the internal practice at UM and provide greater context about the steps taken to determine whether or not you can or should use Fair Dealing.  

New “Check before you copy” posters will be distributed to all UM units and are required to be posted in immediate proximity to all public and office photocopiers, printers and scanners indefinitely. All old copyright posters should be removed and discarded once the new one is posted. 

Copyright is your responsibility 

Canada’s Copyright Act and the University of Manitoba’s Use of Copyright-Protected Materials Policy govern your rights and responsibilities as university community members when copying or sharing copyright-protected works.  

If you copy, scan, or share works (print or digital): 

  • You must have appropriate permission or licensing from the copyright owner; or 
  • Your copying must be permitted by the Copyright Act (Example: Fair Dealing exemption). 

Note: The University of Manitoba is not liable for any infringing copies made or shared using copiers, scanners, or other devices at the University. 

Fair dealing 

Subject to various qualifications and safeguards, the UM Copyright Guidelines permit Fair Dealing copying and sharing of short excerpts for the purposes of: 

  • Research 
  • Private study 
  • Education 
  • Parody 
  • Satire 
  • Criticism 
  • Review 
  • News reporting  

What constitutes Fair Dealing, particularly “short excerpts,” is very specific, depending on the type of work being copied. Copying a full poem from a poetry book or a novella from a literature anthology requires Copyright Office review. 

Learn the specifics and exceptions of what can and cannot be reproduced (copied or digitized). 

Refer your content to the UM Copyright Office for assessment. 

Register for an upcoming copyright workshop 

Take advantage of one of the upcoming Copyright workshops to learn more about copyright and the UM Guidelines. 

Copyright and Generative AI 
Thursday, July 10, 2025  
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm 
Register for this online workshop 

More about copyright, generative AI, and researcher rights. 

Copyright – what faculty and instructors need to know 
Tuesday, July 15, 2025 
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm  
Register for this online workshop 

Using Images 
Thursday, August 14, 2025 
10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. 
Register for this online workshop 

More copyright workshop times 

Questions about copying? 

If you are in doubt about the copyright status of materials, the Copyright Office can assist with clarifying what can be copied or how to get permission.   

Contact the Copyright Office before you copy at um.copyright@umanitoba.ca or 204-474-7277. 

Learn more about copyright

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