While as a student you may have Fair Use exemptions in the category of use for educational purposes, you must still adhere to copyright regulations. You can still infringe copyright law. While Fair Dealing allows for the copying of a single work for individual use, there are still limits that are laid out below.
In general, Fair Use in education only applies to a certain degree with copyrighted works. It does not apply when it leads to a significant infringement of the rights, both financial and moral, of the creator of the work. Meaning that it would prevent people or you in particular from buying the work. This generally prohibits:
Producing multiple copies of a work.
Reproducing an entire work.
Redistributing copies of the work.
Reproducing and selling copies of the work
Sharing copies of a work with a friend or family member.
Reproducing substantial parts of the works, this, while incredibly vague, generally means to avoid reproducing more than 10% or a chapter of a book or 5% or one article from a journal issue.
Any of these actions do not fall under Fair Dealing.
Plagiarism also falls under copyright law. If you pass off someone else's work as your own without referencing the author, not only are you likely to face action from the college you are infringing copyright law which specifically states that any use of another work must a have a suitable acknowledgement to that author. See the Library guide below on how to avoid plagiarism.
Once you sign in to a database you are agreeing to abide by Copyright Legislation & Licence Agreement Terms and Conditions. Databases may be accessed only by Authorised Users e.g. registered staff and students. Under our License Agreement Terms and Conditions all databases are for private individual study and research only. They must not be used for commercial purposes. Users may not reproduce, distribute, display, modify, transfer or transmit, in any form, or by any means, any Database or Service or any portion thereof.
