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

Michael Geist

Simply put, the move digital course management systems has spelled the end of paper course packs and the increased the value of digital licensing models. For example, a 2021 study in The Canadian Journal of Higher Education analyzed 3,391 course syllabi used between 2015 and 2020 from 34 Canadian universities.

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Making College (Textbooks) Affordable

Velocity of Content

Publishing industry analyst Bill Rosenblatt wrote for Publishers Weekly that higher education is the publishing segment undergoing the most disruptive changes today. Click below to listen to the latest episode of the Velocity of Content podcast.

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Enhance Curriculum with Copyrighted Content

Velocity of Content

Exceptions include materials in the public domain such as documents and materials the U.S. An understanding of what materials have fallen into the public domain and the potential complexity in making a determination regarding any specific item. The development and use of Open Educational Resources.

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High-Quality Content: Give Teachers What They Want 

Velocity of Content

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. However, this is not an easy task as the majority of high-quality, authentic texts are copyrighted.