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

ACTRA Chair Presses Moral Rights Reform

ACTRA Chair Ferne Downey publishes an op-ed in the Georgia Straight that focuses on moral rights and WIPO ratification.

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August 26, 2009 Comments are Disabled News

Collier-Brown on Copyright Reform

David Collier-Brown, a published author with O'Reilly, posts his copyright consultation submission. Collier-Brown notes that the electronic availability of his book helped make it the outstanding seller in his class and warns that anti-circumvention legislation would harm him as an author.

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August 25, 2009 4 comments News

Meera Nair on Breaking Copyright Ranks

Meera Nair posts on why she is breaking with the AUCC on copyright and how Canada's student groups stand on the right side of the issues.

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August 25, 2009 Comments are Disabled News

Athabasca University Issues Public Letter to Students on Copyright Consultation

With three weeks left in the copyright consultation, Athabasca University President Frits Pannekoek has issued an open public letter to all students urging them to speak out in the consultation.  The letter expresses concern about a possible reintroduction of C-61-like legislation and its impact on education.  It argues: any legislation […]

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August 24, 2009 2 comments News

Canadian Student Groups Speak Out on Copyright

Canada's two major post-secondary student groups have both filed their comments on the copyright consultation. Both focus on many of the same issues. The Canadian Federation of Students' submission is now posted on the consultation website and it calls for: expanded fair dealing rejection of the Internet exception for education […]

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August 21, 2009 3 comments News