Everything tagged: Copyright

Highlights from ministerial mandate letters on issues of interest to the librarianship community.

The committee will hold formal hearings and public, open-mic sessions for the statutory review of the Copyright Act in cities across Canada next week.

CFLA-FCAB recommends that the Copyright Act respect, affirm and recognize Indigenous peoples ownership of their traditional and living respective Indigenous knowledge.

The program provides an-in depth study of Creative Commons licenses and open practices.

The Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology outlined its plans for the review of the Copyright Act.

“This new agreement does not contain the copyright and content restrictions that had been pushed heavily by the U.S., which is good news for Canadians.”

The Statement underlines the provincial and territorial education ministers’ support for teachers’ and students’ use of the fair dealing provision in the Copyright Act for classroom learning.

The CFLA recently released three position statements on copyright: Fair Dealing; Protecting Copyright Exceptions from Contract Override; and Technological Protection Measures

CARL seeks to collect additional personal stories in which individuals express how they benefit from fair dealing

L’ABRC cherche à recueillir davantage d’histoires personnelles dans lesquelles des individus expriment comment ils tirent avantage de l’utilisation équitable.