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 […]
Fair Dealing by Giulia Forsythe (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) https://flic.kr/p/dRkXwP
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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
“Canadians told us the TPM provisions in C-61 were too far reachingâ€
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 […]
CBC’s The National on C-32
CBC’s The National ran a good story on Bill C-32 over the weekend, focusing specifically on the impact on consumers.
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