Objects on the Internet are protected by copyright. However, you may copy material found on the Internet under the Fair Dealing legislation in the Copyright Act. Fair Dealing involves making a single copy for the purpose of private study or research. Any other use must be cleared by the copyright holder.

You can digitize material (such as burning a CD or scanning an image into a computer) as long as the work is in the public domain or there is written permission to digitize it. You may also digitize something if it is for private study or research (because this falls under Fair Dealing). You may not digitize someone else's work in order to post it on the Internet; that can only be done by the creator of the work.

There are a number of copyright-friendly resources available, most notably sites that use Creative Commons licensing.