Under Fair Dealing for criticism or review, individuals may copy limited amounts of copyright material, without infringing copyright, as long as their purpose is to comment critically on the material, or to contrast or compare different material.
Using copyright material for illustrative purposes is not for the purposes of criticism or review.
Examples of fair dealing for criticism and review might include:
- a lecturer reusing a work for inclusion in a conference paper for the purpose of commenting critically on the material;
- communication between academics for the purpose of criticism and discussion;
- students reusing film clips to critique them as part of an assignment.