Fair dealing is an important part of creating fair and equitable access for students to short excerpts of course readings that do not fall under student purchased materials like textbooks or library purchased ebooks and journals. ​It should also be noted that Open Access, Open Education Resources and other models of freely sharing and accessing scholarly and educational material are important positive trends that continue to impact student’s access to content.

Toronto Metropolitan University

This is an excerpt from Toronto Metropolitan University’s (formerly Ryerson University) brief submitted as part of the 2018 Statutory Review of the Copyright Act