Four months after the Supreme Court of Canada issued its
landmark series of copyright decisions, a consensus on the scope of
fair dealing has begun to emerge within the education community.
While Access Copyright has been sending threatening
letters to institutions that seek to rely on fair dealing with
claims that the decisions are being misinterpreted,
roughly similar policies have now been developed by K-12 school
boards, community colleges, and universities that plainly reject the
views of the copyright collective.
As discussed in my post
on the ACCC fair dealing policy, the breadth of fair dealing raises
obvious questions about the necessity of an Access Copyright
licence. All educational institutions already spend millions on
licensed materials. Indeed, the Access Copyright study on K-12
institutions found that 88% of
copying was permitted without the need for either an Access
Copyright licence or reliance on fair dealing. Given the scope
of fair dealing as articulated by the Supreme Court of Canada, many are concluding that the
Access Copyright licence offers little additional value to Canadian
educational institutions.
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The Canadian Press reports
that Canada is ready to cave to European demands for changes to patent
rules that could cost Canadians hundreds of millions of dollars in
higher health care costs. The ministerial meeting on the remaining CETA
issues is set for next week.
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The CRTC has launched an online discussion to foster greater debate among Canadians on a new code for wireless services. A public hearing is planned for next February. Slashdot, Digg, Del.icio.us, Newsfeeder, Reddit, StumbleUpon, TwitterTagsShareWednesday November 14, 2012 |
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