Short excerpts: Under the MRU Fair Dealing Guidelines, you may make a copy of a 'short excerpt' (up to 10%) of a copyright-protected audiovisual work and distribute it to a limited audience for research, education, private study, criticism and/or review, among other purposes. 'Short excerpts' may be shown in class, posted to D2L, or sent via email to your students. 

• Note: The copy must be made from a legally obtained work and if a copy is to be made by bypassing a technological protection measure (digital lock), please contact the Copyright Advisor (mrucopyright@mtroyal.ca).
• For example, you could not create a short excerpt from an illegally obtained video torrent nor could you use pirating software to record a clip from an audio visual work even if the original was legally obtained.

Downloading from the internet: Downloading films and videos, without the permission of the copyright owner or rightsholder, is illegal in Canada, unless the video is a legally uploaded work that provides you with a license or permission to do so (and that is not one that you can access through a personal subscription such as Netflix).

Changing formats: When you convert a work from one form to another (i.e. VHS to DVD), this is called format shifting. If you would like a required course video digitized, check out the Library page to see if your request meets all of the conditions. This process is done under the distance and online education exception (s. 30.01) and in accordance with the technological protection measures section (s. 41.1) of the Copyright Act.