Digital Copies (Schedule G-Additional Provisions Dealing with Digital Copies - Section 29 of the Tariff)
If your institution has elected to license digital copies under the Interim Tariff, faculty, staff and students will be able to conveniently and legally make digital copies of publications that Access Copyright represents. These uses include scanning a paper copy, or posting or uploading a digital copy to a secure network. Institutions do not need to keep records of Digital Copies or make a separate royalty payment when professors, staff and students make digital copies of works.
What you can copy
For Digital Copies under the Interim Tariff, no copying can exceed 20% of a published work or the following, whichever is greater:
- An entire newspaper article or a page
- An entire single short story, play, poem, essay or article from a book or periodical issue (including a set of conference proceedings) containing other works
- An entire entry from an encyclopedia, dictionary, annotated biography or similar reference work
- An entire reproduction of an artistic work (including drawing, sculpture, painting, prints, architectural works of art or works of artistic craftsmanship) from a book or periodical issue containing other works
Works NOT covered by the Interim Tariff
- Works on the Exclusions List
- Unpublished works
- Consumable items such as published workbooks, assignment sheets, and tests
- Crown or provincial publications (excluding Quebec)
- Instruction manuals, including teachers' guides
- Sheet music and original artistic works including photographs or prints
- Works published in countries with which Access Copyright does not have a reciprocal agreement
- Works with notices excluding them from copying under a collective licence
To find out more about copying under the Interim Tariff, please contact Access Copyright at 416-868-1620 (toll-free 1-800-893-5777) or email us.
