Fair Dealing by Giulia Forsythe (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) https://flic.kr/p/dRkXwP

Fair Dealing by Giulia Forsythe (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) https://flic.kr/p/dRkXwP

Copyright

More Schools Backing Away from Access Copyright

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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December 13, 2010 Comments are Disabled News

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 […]

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December 10, 2010 10 comments News

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 […]

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December 9, 2010 38 comments News

Sorting Through the Copyright Levy Proposals

The Canadian Private Copying Collective appeared before the C-32 Legislative Committee on Monday, leaving Access Copyright and the CACN with secondary roles as MPs devoted most of the discussion to the levy issue. While the levy vs. tax characterization discussion came up, it seems to me that there will be mounting confusion over the competing levy proposals.  The CPCC made their pitch, but there are now multiple proposals for extending the levy or creating entirely new levies (some varations are supported by the same organizations).  The key proposals:

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December 8, 2010 43 comments News

“Canadians told us the TPM provisions in C-61 were too far reaching”

According to documents I recently obtained under the Access to Information Act, this quote was part of a draft speech for Canadian Heritage Minister James Moore.  The quote was removed by department officials before approval of the final version.  Moore delivered the speech in June 2010, in which he proceeded […]

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December 8, 2010 10 comments News