Knowledge Base: Copyright

It is permissible to share/post copyrighted material on your website if:

• you obtain permission from the copyright holder, or
• your website is password protected, restricted to those in your course, and the copy is within the limits of fair dealing, or
• your website is password protected, restricted to those in your course, the material is publicly available on the Internet, and the source is cited. Works must be legitimately posted on the Internet, with no technological protection measure or clearly visible notice prohibiting such actions.

Posting a link on your website is permissible, and in most cases preferable because linking does not constitute copying.  When posting a link to StFX library materials, add the library proxy prefix https://libproxy.stfx.ca/login?url= to the URL so students can access the document from off campus.  See the guide on How to Create Reliable Links to articles in library subscribed databases. Consider using Moodle rather than your website for your course content.    

The following notice can be provided to students when distributing copyrighted materials:

"This work has been copied under a StFX University Library license, or an exception in the Copyright Act or under license from the copyright owner."