Fair Use Higher Education Licensing 
Velocity of Content
AUGUST 13, 2024
Copyright exceptions such as fair use provide some support for the use of materials but they are fact specific, and broad sharing and copying of copyright materials throughout a school district or state—especially if provided by the state department of education or school district—usually requires a license.
IP and Legal Filings
JULY 21, 2022
The most universal limitations to the rights of the owner are the right to copy insubstantial parts and the right of fair dealing or use. Here, the Fair use doctrine does not define any boundary within which anything can be put, the list can be endless. No educational institution applied for any licenses till now.
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Kluwer Copyright Blog
MAY 1, 2023
In particular, only 5% of the total extent of a work, an article lawfully published in a newspaper or a periodical, a poem or a work of visual arts, including photographic works, is permitted to be used within the allowed ambit of this limitation. The licenses may cover all the same uses covered by the limitation.
Michael Geist
FEBRUARY 21, 2023
Canadian copyright lobby groups have relentlessly lobbied the government to overturn decades of Supreme Court of Canada jurisprudence, seeking unprecedented restrictions on fair dealing that include eliminating it for educational institutions if a licence is available. The addition of “education” was hardly an overhaul.
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