The Durham College Library licenses many electronic resources for its staff, faculty, and current students including indexes, databases, journals, and e-books. Access to these resources is governed by contractual agreements (license agreements) with resource providers. The agreements stipulate that access to the resource is restricted to current students, faculty and staff of Durham College. Use of these resources may only be used for educational and research purposes only and not for commercial purposes.
To determine whether or not copies of works found on an electronic resource may be made, review the Terms of Use of the resource for licensing information.
If you are unsure about what you can do with a particular resource, check the permitted uses for that resource in our license database.
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The Durham College Library licenses many electronic resources for its staff, faculty, and current students including indexes, databases, journals, and e-books. Access to these resources is governed by contractual agreements (license agreements) with resource providers. The agreements stipulate that access to the resource is restricted to current students, faculty and staff of Ontario Tech. Use of these resources may only be used for educational and research purposes only and not for commercial purposes.
To determine whether or not copies of works found on an electronic resource may be made, review the Terms of Use of the resource for licensing information.
Legally acquired films (available from a public library, video store, or a personal copy) may be shown in class for non-profit educational purposes without paying public performance rights Copyright Act, Educational Institutions, Performances 29.5.
Feature length films (videos/DVDs) available in the library catalogue have been purchased for classroom use and are licensed for non-theatrical public performance use and may be viewed in the classroom.
If you are planning to host a film screening that is not affiliated with a single course and students enrolled in that course, such as a student event or club screening, please contact the library so we can obtain public performance rights.
Digital Locks are formally referred to as Technological Protection Measures (TPMs) in the Copyright Act. Digital Locks are sometimes used by copyright owners to prevent works from being accessed or copied without permission. This can be done through measures like encryption, content scrambling, passwords, or limited install activations. The Copyright Act prohibits circumvention of these access controls. See Section 41 of the Copyright Act for more information.