Toronto and UWO Confirm the Obvious: Access Copyright Licence Provides Little Value for Education

From: http://www.michaelgeist.ca/

The University of Toronto and the University of Western Ontario, the two Ontario universities that were quick to sign a copyright collective licence with Access Copyright before the conclusion of Bill C-11 and the Supreme Court of Canada's fair dealing decisions, have announced that starting next year they will no longer operate under a licence from the copyright collective.

The moves come after many other prominent Canadian universities operated without an Access Copyright licence, relying instead the millions of dollars being spent on site licences, open access materials, fair dealing, and transactional licensing for specific works that are otherwise unavailable or whose use would not constitute fair dealing.

Posted: 2013 December 12

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