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Introduction
Located in Stauffer Library and working closely with Queen's University Legal Counsel, the Copyright Advisory office is dedicated to educating, supporting, and engaging with Queen's faculty, students, researchers, and staff in matters pertaining to copyright, access to knowledge and content, learning, teaching, and conducting and disseminating research, and administrative operations.
This page details the guides, services, and resources that are available to assist Queen's students with their copyright-related needs.
Copyright Information
The following guides contain information specifically for members of the Queen's University community.
Copyright Information for Researchers (coming soon)
Copyright Information for Staff (coming soon)
Services for Students
This service enables faculty and students to have one single access point for all course materials and to support copyright compliance.
This service provides students with alternate formats of textbooks, course readings, and research materials.
This service seeks, obtains, and arranges for the use of copyright-protected content that is beyond the scope of fair dealing, requires authorization from a copyright owner, and requires the payment of licensing fees.
This service is available in person or online to students at Queen's University who would like assistance with course materials, research projects, license agreements, and other copyright-related needs.
Workshops for faculty, students, researchers, and staff on a variety of copyright-related topics are offered throughout the academic year.
Resources for Students
Queen's University's Copyright Compliance and Administration Policy
This resource provides an overview of how various categories of copyright-protected content can be used by students for private study and research purposes, producing academic works, preparing and publishing theses and dissertations, uploading to course content sharing sites, inputting to AI tools and products, and performing during events that are held on campus.
This resource provides an overview of what copyright is and how it works, the term of copyright protection and the public domain, what copyright infringement is, the importance of copyright compliance, and the similarities and differences between Canadian and American copyright laws.
This resource provides students with an overview of what fair dealing is and how it works, the fair dealing requirements for educational copying, short excerpts, applying fair dealing to students' private study, research, and education, and addresses fair dealing and Indigenous works.
This resource provides students with an overview of what the non-commercial user-generated content exception is and how to apply it to students' academic works.
This resource provides detailed information about how various categories of content can be used by students for specific purposes.
This resource provides an overview of the relationship between copyright infringement and plagiarism, the plagiarism spectrum, best practices for avoiding plagiarism, and how to (actually) use TurnItIn.
This resource provides an overview of the differences between submitting student works for evaluation and publishing student works.
This resource provides detailed information about the three stages of theses and dissertations: conducting research and submission for review, depositing in QSpace, and future publications.
This resource provides students with information to produce media, such as videos and audio recordings.
This resource provides students with an overview of copyright considerations and best practices for the use of AI tools and AI-generated content.
This resource provides an overview of special considerations for the use of Indigenous works of cultural heritage, traditional knowledge, and traditional cultural expression.
This resource provides an overview of what public performance rights are and how to obtain them so that films and music can be performed during events that are held on campus.
This resource provides answers to a variety of frequently asked copyright-related questions.