The Law Society and Fair Dealing Sample Clauses

The Law Society and Fair Dealing. 47 The Great Library provides a custom photocopy service. Upon receiving a request from a lawyer, law student, member of the judiciary or author- ized researcher, the Great Library staff photocop- ies extracts from legal material within its collec- tion and sends it to the requester. The question is whether this service falls within the fair dealing defence under s. 29 of the Copyright Act which provides: “Fair dealing for the purpose of research or private study does not infringe copyright.” (a) The Law 48 Before reviewing the scope of the fair dealing exception under the Copyright Act, it is important to clarify some general considerations about excep- tions to copyright infringement. Procedurally, a defendant is required to prove that his or her deal- ing with a work has been fair; however, the fair dealing exception is perhaps more properly under- stood as an integral part of the Copyright Act than simply a defence. Any act falling within the fair dealing exception will not be an infringement of copyright. The fair dealing exception, like other exceptions in the Copyright Act, is a user’s right. In order to maintain the proper balance between the rights of a copyright owner and users’ interests, it must not be interpreted restrictively. As Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxx, supra, has explained, at p. 171: “User rights are not just loopholes. Both owner rights and user rights should therefore be given the fair pas non plus de contrôle sur les œuvres que les usagers décident de copier, sur les fins aux- quelles ils les copient, ni sur les photocopieuses elles-mêmes. En résumé, j’xxxxxx que la preuve ne révèle pas que xx Xxxxxxx a autorisé la violation du droit d’auteur en mettant des photocopieuses libre- service ainsi que des exemplaires des œuvres des éditeurs intimés à la disposition des usagers de la Grande bibliothèque. Je ferais droit à xx xxxxx x’xxxxx.