What are the laws and rules relating to copyright at UW?
Use of copyright materials at UW is covered by both the Canadian Copyright Act and various agreements and licences entered into by the University with copyright owners and representative organizations. The Copyright Act is the legislation in Canada that sets out what you can and can’t do with other people’s copyright materials. In addition to this, the University has special agreements with copyright owners, such as subscriptions to electronic journals, which give you additional rights to certain content. In order to determine whether what you want to do is permissible, you therefore need to check that you comply both with the Copyright Act and with any agreements or licences covering that the work in question.
