Fair Dealing Week 2021: Events

Keynote Lecture on text and data mining delivered by Pamela Samuelson on Monday, February 22, 2021. This will be hosted from 5pm-7pm via Zoom.

Instructed by Mandy Havert

Do you need some face-to-face accountability to keep committed to your research and writing? This workshop time is available for graduate students working on their theses or dissertations.

Join the virtual session at 8:30am for goal-setting and help with a new tool or tip that may be game-changing in your productivity or focus. We’ll work together to set goals, write in separate breakout rooms, and reconvene between 11:30am and 11:45am to talk about our successes, challenges, and thoughts about the next time we write.

Registration is required to receive the Zoom invite (password-protected).

Open to Graduate Students.

Hosted by the University of Alberta
Presented by Dr. Carys J. Craig, Associate Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University

This year’s Fair Dealing Week takes place against the backdrop of a global health crisis that has fundamentally changed the way we teach and learn. When the COVID-19 pandemic swept across the world in 2020, educational institutions were forced to close their classroom doors, lock up their libraries, and take their teaching online. The stark reality of our digital dependency has revealed and exacerbated longstanding problems in Canada’s educational copyright ecosystem. In this presentation, Professor Carys Craig will identify some key problems and—hopefully—some lessons learned from the COVID-19 crisis, pointing to the role that fair dealing and user rights must play in reshaping copyright norms for whatever “new normal” emerges.

Hosted by the University of Alberta
Presented by Dr. Pascale Chapdelaine, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Windsor

Dr. Pascale Chapdelaine will comment on a recent Canadian jurisprudential development on fair dealing: York University v. Access Copyright, 2020 FCA 77, and on the insights to be derived from this decision for large educational institutions. As the applications for leave to appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada were recently granted, she will analyse the narratives of the two levels of Federal Court decisions and how a different narrative may lead to different conclusions. Reflecting more broadly on the nature of fair dealing as a user right, Dr. Chapdelaine will discuss the practical implications to be derived from the decisions on the design and implementation of fair dealing guidelines by educational institutions.

Hosted by Ryerson University
Panelist Discussion

Panelists will review significant legal developments in the areas of fair dealing and copyright, which impact on the educational use of copyright materials.

This includes the Access Copyright v. York University case, decisions by the Copyright Board impacting higher education, and Canadian case law. These developments will be of interest to instructors, faculty, and librarians, and others interested in copyright and education. Participants will also learn about the available supports at the Library to ensure copyright compliance, including the Library’s Digital Course Reading service.

Presented by Arnaud Zimmern.

Open to Undergraduates, Graduate Students, Postdocs, Faculty, Staff.

Zotero is a free bibliographic management system developed by humanities scholars that allows users to manage references, make notes, and automatically attach PDFs.

Hosted by the University of Alberta
Panel Discussion

Reflecting on the recommendations made by stakeholders in the 2017 Copyright Act review can provide insight into improving our approaches to copyright advocacy. Join us to explore how we in higher education (including faculty, librarians, administrators, in-house legal counsel, and professional associations) can strengthen our collective advocacy efforts. This conversation will bring together panelists who have directly engaged with copyright and fair dealing as both educators and creators, and who have all engaged in copyright advocacy. We will consider how best to respond to concerns about the use of fair dealing in educational settings, as well as how best to put forward our own priorities, both within the framework of the upcoming 2022 Copyright Act review and in the broader public realm.

Note: Visit link for instructions on installing Python before the session.

Open to Undergraduates, Graduate Students, Postdocs, Faculty, Staff.

Python is a free, open-source, general-purpose programming language that is useful for writing scripts to work effectively and reproducibly with data. Pandas is an open-source library, written for the Python programming language, and provides tools for data manipulation and analysis.

This session is an introduction to Python and Pandas designed for participants with no programming experience. Concepts covered in this session include the following:

-Python basics
-Processing data from a file
-Basic data manipulation and analysis with Pandas

This lesson assumes no prior knowledge of the skills or tools.

Hosted by the Canadian Association of Research Libraries

In December 2020, CARL released the Copyright Open Educational Resource for University Instructors and Staff. This self-directed course is currently being adapted for use at a number of universities across Canada.

Join four of the working group members that helped build this course for an hour-long panel discussion related to how each university is approaching course implementation at their institutions. The discussion will include: tools and techniques institutions are using to implement the course, approaches for different learning management systems (Brightspace, Canvas, Moodle), and possible strategies for encouraging course completion.