Fair dealing allows for the copying of a short excerpt of a copyright protected work without seeking permission or paying royalties to the copyright owner. The fair dealing limits for copying for educational purposes are set out in MRU's Fair Dealing Guidelines, as well as summarized in the Quick Guide for Teaching & Copyright at MRU. 
 

Generally, you can copy up to 10% of a work or one chapter of a book.
 

The material copied can only be distributed to students engaged in a specific course of study at MRU, and cannot be made available to those not in the class. The short excerpt can be shared with your students as:

• a class handout (or email);
• in D2L; or
• as part of a course pack

The fair dealing amount in MRU's guidelines is per work, per course, per semester. This means that copying chapter after chapter from one book throughout the semester will not qualify as fair dealing. 

If you are copying material for use on a publicly accessible website, in publicity materials, for publication or any other use outside a course, you may need the permission of the copyright owner. Contact the Copyright Advisor (mrucopyright@mtroyal.ca) for more information or for help obtaining permission.