Under fair dealing you may generally copy up to 10% of another person’s work, including images, for inclusion in your PowerPoint presentations that you display to students enrolled in your course. You can copy and display an entire single image from a collection of images (e.g. a single photograph from a book of photographs), or up to 10% of a stand-alone image that is not part of a larger collection. You may also put this image in Canvas.
Under the educational institution exceptions in the Copyright Act, you may display an entire work in the classroom, including a stand-alone image that is not part of a larger collection of images. To do so you must ensure that there is not a commercially available copy (obtainable within a reasonable time and price) in the format required (S29.4 of Copyright Act). If you subsequently put this image in Canvas, you must destroy/remove the file from Canvas within 30 days of the end of the course. Simply making the file inaccessible is insufficient. (See S30.01 of the Copyright Act). You may also copy an entire work found online as long as there is no technological protection measure and no "clearly visible notice" prohibiting the use.
See the Copyright and Teaching Infographic for full details.
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