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Time to fix Canada’s copyright mistake

Each year since 2012, when the Copyright Act was loaded with vague new amendments, many Canadian universities have claimed free access to hundreds of millions of pages of copies, citing their own controversial interpretation of fair dealing.

Weak copyright legislation allows universities to infringe on the intellectual rights of content creators, writes John Degan.The Hill Times photograph by Cynthia Münster

Opinion

BY JOHN DEGEN

May 8, 2017

Some weeks ago, scholars at Concordia University in Montreal were caught infringing copyright in what appeared to be acts of wholesale book piracy. This turned into public embarrassment for the university when Kate Taylor at The Globe and Mail published details of the infringements. Worki...

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