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Copyright Office

Welcome to the Copyright Office

This section is meant to support Royal Roads University instructors, program staff, and students with all things copyright.

This site covers:

  • The basics of Canadian copyright law, and copyright-related FAQs
  • For students and researchers:  What you can legally reproduce for your own personal study and research purposes
  • For instructors:  How to use materials of various formats in instruction, whether in the classroom or online
  • How to reduce copyright costs by using high-quality online material
  • For student project advisors: What you must know about copyright and privacy legislation when guiding student projects
  • What you need to know in order to upload research to the DSpace repository
  • Copyright news and news of new resources

To contact the Copyright Officer, Melanie Wrobel, please email:  copyrightofficer@royalroads.ca or telephone: 250-391-2652.

Copyright Information for Students

As a Royal Roads University student, what can I copy legally?

What you can copy without seeking permission from the copyright owner is determined by the fair dealing section of Canadian copyright law. Please familiarize yourself with RRU's ...

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Copyright Information for Faculty, Staff and Student Project Advisors

Royal Roads University must receive permission in writing from a copyright owner or publisher before we reproduce any work not owned by the University, whether for classroom, course pack, CD-ROM or website purposes.

This need not be as onerous as it sounds! The ...

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Audio Visual Rights

Copyright involves several different rights, many of which are specific to particular formats. Among the major rights which affect the use of audiovisual and new media at educational institutions are: public performance rights, duplication rights, off-air taping rights, moral...

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Copyright Resources

Here are some resources relating to copyright that you may find helpful:

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Fair Dealing

Fair dealing (Sx.29) is a legal concept present in the Canadian Copyright Act that states that certain types of uses...

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Privacy Information Basics

Why does privacy matter?

Privacy matters because we all have the right to maintain a private life, separate and apart from our public life. We negotiate our identity in the world and choose to share pieces of ourselves with those we trust.

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