Category: Legal
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The Government of Canada Announces Upcoming Amendments to the Copyright Act
Holy cow, they actually listened! Others can fill you in much more eloquently than I (Laura J. Murray, Michael Geist) but in a nutshell Canada was contemplating changes to copyright law that would both make Canada the laughingstock of the Internet, and throw distance education back into the pre-internet dark ages as far as document…
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Call for contributors – Journal of Library & Information Services in Distance Learning
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Hello reader! (I’m kidding, I know there are at least three of you out there!) I’m looking for your help. I recently agreed to assume the editorship of the eServices in Libraries column for the Journal of Library & Information Services in Distance Learning, and I’m looking for contributors for the column. I have several…
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Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States
Wow, talk about convoluted! This was mentioned in ResearchBuzz, and I pass it on here for anyone who’s maybe doing digitization projects for their distance students… Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States
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Canadian Copyright Concerns
Ever send your distance students a link to a website? Michael Geist has an interesting legal piece in the Toronto Star entitled Will copyright reform chill use of Web?. In it, he discusses a recent parliamentary committee report (44 page PDF) on copyright reform that, if adopted, would mean that Canadian educational institutions would be…