Citing Tips and Copyright Rules

1. Copyright and Course Development

2. How to Cite Sources

3. Copyright Free Resources

4. Fair Dealing

All course content must follow current copyright law. ETC uses APA formatting for all course modules.

A work does not need to be registered or labelled as copyrighted for that work to be protected by copyright. Rather, a creator owns copyright on a work as soon as the person writes, paints, photographs, records, saves, etc. that work in durable form. An educator must assume that a published work is copyrighted unless there are credible indications to the contrary (e.g. the work is known to be in the public domain, the work includes express permission for use, etc.). Olds College follows specific guidelines for making copies under the fair dealing exception of the Act, including how much of a given work may be copied, how it may be distributed, and for what purposes.

SECURING COPYRIGHT FOR COURSE DEVELOPMENT MEANS:

quotations and other material from outside sources, including images, are appropriately cited within the course materials;
a bibliography or reference list includes all citations (every text citation should have a matching entry in the reference list).

The bibliography or reference list can be presented in one location for the entire course, broken down for each module, or in other appropriate methods that allows the learners to view the sources of course content.

Important things to remember:

Cite all images
Cite material used throughout the course and for student use
Material used should not be more than 7 years old (if it is necessary to use older materials, please provide a rationale of its value)
Materials can be used as long as they follow Fair Dealing rules (see next page)

HOW CAN I HELP MY STUDENTS FOLLOW THESE COPYRIGHT RULES?

As stated above, modelling correct citation methods is the best first step you can take. As well, feel free to share all of the resources in this site, as the copyright rules apply to everyone, both staff and students alike. The Olds College Learning Commons staff can also support our students and yourself when it comes to searching and citing materials.

This Academic Integrity Checklist created by York University can also be shared with your students, as long as is attributed to the original source (CC BY-SA-NC 3.0).

How to Cite your Sources

All works copied must be clearly and appropriately attributed. The links below will help you cite your sources using APA formatting:

Copyright Free Resources

Copyright-friendly images

Our favorite Credible Sites to Search for Pictures:

Search FLICKR using Creative Commons license to suit your project.
Search BING. They have a search that filters by license.
Search Creative Commons. Select "modify, adapt, or build upon."
Search Wikimedia Commons.
Search morguefile
Search Stocksnap
Search Pexels
Search pixabay

Additional Free Resources

Morgue File provides free photos with license to remix. The Morgue File photo collection contains thousands of images that anyone can use for free in academic or commercial presentations.

Wylio is an image search engine that provides images listed with a Creative Commons license, making it easy to give proper attribution to the creator of the image by providing you with html code that includes attribution. All you have to do is copy the code and paste it into your blog post or webpage.

William Vann's EduPic Graphical Resource provides free photographs and drawings for teachers and students to use in their classrooms. Mr. Vann is an amateur photograph and gives permission to teachers and students to use the images in any manner needed for instructional and learning purposes.

Animal Photos is a great source of Creative Commons licensed photos of animals. Each image indicates the type of Creative Commons license associated with the picture and offers advice on giving attribution for each photo.

The World Images Kiosk hosted by San Jose State University offers more than 75,000 images that teachers and students can use in their academic projects. All of the images can be used under a Creative Commons license that requires you to give proper attribution when necessary.

Photos 8 is a great place to find thousands of images that are in the public domain. These images can be used in any way that you and your students see fit. There are twenty-two categories of images of which the largest collections are of animals, birds, and sunsets.

To find images that can be reused and remixed use Google's Advanced Image search options. To use the usage rights filter option, select "advanced image search" on the main Google Images page. Once in the "advanced image search" page, you will find the usage rights options at the bottom of the page. In the usage rights menu you can select one of four options: "labelled for reuse", "labelled for commercial reuse", "labelled for reuse with modification", or "labelled for commercial reuse with modification".

Yahoo Images has an option similar to Google's for finding Creative Commons licensed images. When you search for images using Yahoo's image search tool, you can select filters to refine results to show only images that are licensed under Creative Commons. The filters allow you to select filters for images that can be used for commercial purposes or images that are licensed for remixing and building upon.

Fair Dealing

The copyright law of Canada governs the copying and communicating of copyright-protected material. Certain copies and communications may infringe copyright law. These fair dealing guidelines are provided for your information. You are solely responsible for knowing your rights and responsibilities under the Copyright Act. Olds College is not responsible for infringing copies made by staff.

The fair dealing provision in the Copyright Act permits the copying and communication of short excerpts from a copyright-protected work, without permission or the payment of copyright royalties, IF you follow these fair dealing guidelines.

A student may copy and communicate, in paper or electronic form, a single copy of a short excerpt from a copyright-protected work if it is for the purpose of research, private study, criticism, review, news reporting, education, satire or parody.
Copying for the purpose of news reporting, criticism or review must mention the source and, if given in the source, the name of the author or creator of the work.
A single copy of a short excerpt (see point 4) from a copyright-protected work may be posted to a learning or course management system that is password protected or otherwise restricted to students of a particular course.
A short excerpt means any one of the following:
- up to 10% of a copyright-protected work (including a literary work, musical score, sound recording, and an audiovisual work)
- one chapter from a book
- a single article from a periodical
- an entire artistic work (including a painting, print, photograph, diagram, drawing, map, chart, and plan) from a copyright-protected work containing other artistic works
- an entire newspaper article or page
- an entire single poem or musical score from a copyright-protected work containing other poems or musical scores
- an entire entry from an encyclopedia, annotated bibliography, dictionary or similar reference work
Copying or communicating multiple short excerpts from the same copyright-protected work, with the intention of copying or communicating substantially the entire work, is prohibited.
Any fee charged by the educational institution for communicating or copying a short excerpt from a copyright-protected work must be intended to cover only the costs of the institution, including overhead costs.

For more information please go to Canadian Legal FAQs

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