As the fight over the proposed Access Copyright interim tariff heats up (Howard Knopf offers links to must-read submissions from many objectors), more Canadian schools are gearing up for life without the copyright collective. Medicine Hat College posted a notice about leaving on Friday, while Ryerson has advised faculty that […]
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Location Matters Up in the Cloud
Amazon is best known for its e-commerce site, yet it is also one of the world’s leading cloud computing providers, offering instant website hosting to thousands of companies and websites. In recent years, the combination of massive computer server farms in remote locations and high speed networks have enabled cloud computing to emerge as a critical mechanism for offering online services and delivering Internet content.
After Amazon pulled the plug, Wikileaks quickly shifted to a European host, demonstrating how easily sites can shift from one cloud provider to another. Although it seems counter-intuitive to consider the physical location of cloud computing equipment when discussing services that by their very definition operate across borders in the “cloudâ€, the Wikileaks-Amazon incident provided an important reminder that location matters when it comes to cloud computing.
Athabasca University Decides Not To Renew Access Copyright Licence
Athabasca University has announced that it will not renew the Access Copyright licence, joining a growing number of universities that have decided to walk away from the licence in favour of alternative means of paying for works. In the case of AU, they plan to increase reliance on open educational […]
Macleans on C-32 & Fair Dealing: Claims of Rampant Copying “Grossly Exaggerated”
Macleans education blog has a post on Bill C-32 and the extension of the fair dealing provision to education. The post gets beyond the misinformation campaign to set the record straight: “the claims that the addition of education as a fair dealing category will lead to the erosion of the […]
Sorting Through the Copyright Levy Proposals
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