The Canadian Press covers yesterday' s CMEC conference on Bill C-60 and education. The article includes comments from an Industry Canada official who provides assurance that "very little should change for schools under Bill C-60." I agree. Unfortunately, the fact that the bill does little for education and increasing access […]
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Access Copyright’s Beneficiaries
The Toronto Star today publishes a letter to the editor from Maureen Cavan, the Executive Director of Access Copyright that responds to Monday' s column on education and copyright. Not surprisingly, Ms. Cavan disagrees with the column, arguing that In his column, Geist describes Access Copyright as one of two […]
The Coming Battle Over Education and Copyright
My weekly Law Bytes column (freely available hyperlinked version, Toronto Star version) focuses on the coming battle over copyright and education in Canada in light of the recent premiers' commitment to higher education and the likely summit with the Prime Minister on the issue this fall. I argue that the […]
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