CANADIAN COPYRIGHT REFORMS STARVING PUBLISHERS OF EDUCATION-RELATED ROYALTIES, WARNS INDUSTRY
March 15th, 2014
EDUCATION institutions in Canada have interpreted changes to the nation’s copyright laws with impunity, threatening the sustainability of the publishing and creating industry, charges publishing and author representatives. Universities, colleges and schools are taking the inclusion of “short excerpts” in 2012 amendments to the Canada Copyright Act as allowing 10% of published material to be copied without licence, noted Carolyn Wood, executive director of the Association of Canadian Publishers.It was a “remarkably uniform” interpretation, and has ...
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