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Canadian Copyright, Fair Dealing and Education, Part Four: The Disappearance of Course Packs

Michael Geist

Canadian copyright lobby groups effort to persuade the government to restrict fair dealing has often focused on a particular use case: the course pack. Copyright lobby groups and their supporters have long claimed that the practice relies on fair dealing and that universities are profiting from copying without compensation.

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Enhance Curriculum with Copyrighted Content

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However, adopting a more systematic program of creating or adapting curriculum materials for an entire district or school highlights some important questions about schools’ and school districts’ rights and obligations under copyright law. Exceptions include materials in the public domain such as documents and materials the U.S.

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Making College (Textbooks) Affordable

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Publishing industry analyst Bill Rosenblatt wrote for Publishers Weekly that higher education is the publishing segment undergoing the most disruptive changes today. The post Making College (Textbooks) Affordable appeared first on Copyright Clearance Center.

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High-Quality Content: Give Teachers What They Want 

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However, this is not an easy task as the majority of high-quality, authentic texts are copyrighted. Ensuring copyright compliance becomes an additional task for teachers, and despite all that the public domain, OER, and the Creative Commons License have to offer without infringement, its not enough.