samtrosow.ca - AUCC Fair Dealing Guidelines Posted

Canadian Copyright: A Citizen's Guide

Table of Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1: Copyright's Rationales

Reviews:

Quill and Quire

Excess Copyright

CAUT Bulletin

Laura Murray is an Associate Professor in the English Department of Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, and creator of the website www.faircopyright.ca.

Samuel Trosow is an Associate Professor at the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario. He is jointly appointed in the Faculty of Law and the Faculty of Information and Media Studies.

Blog Roll

arielkatz.ca/

cippic.ca

Creators' Access Copyright

digital-copyright.ca/

excesscopyright

fairduty.wordpress.com/

freedom-to-tinker.com/

Recording Industry vs The People

Social Justice Librarian

techdirt.com

torrentfreak.com

Union Library Workers

whithertheuofa.blogspot.com/

Recent Decisions

Federal Court of Appeal
Alberta (Education) v. Access Copyright
2010 FCA 198 (July 23, 2010) (pdf)
US Federal Court of Appeals
MGE UPS Systems Inc. v. GE Consumer and Industrial Inc.
(5th Cir. July 20, 2010)
Supreme Court of Canada
Ontario (Public Safety and Security) v.
Criminal Lawyers’ Association
(June 17, 2010)
Federal Court of Appeal
SOCAN v Bell Canada (May 27, 2010)
(Application for Leave filed Aug. 13, 2010)
Copyright Board
Repographic Reproductons (Educational Institutions)

Reasons (June 26, 2009)
BC Supreme Court
(November 24, 2008)
Canwest Mediaworks v Horizon Publications
US Federal District Court
(Southern District NY)
Viacom v YouTube (July 2, 2008)
Commentary
US Federal District Court
(Eastern District of Virginia)
A.V. v IParadigms (March 11, 2008)
(Commentary)
Copyright Board
Reproduction of Sound Recordings by Commercial Radio Stations

Reasons (Feb. 29, 2008)
Commentary (Howard Knopf)
WTO (WT/DS285/ARB, Dec. 21, 2007),
Press (NY Times, Register),
Commentary (William Patry, Howard Knopf)
Copyright Board
SOCAN Tariff 22.A (1996-2006)
Internet - Online Music Services
Reasons (Oct. 18, 2007)
Copyright Board
Private Copying 2008-2009
Reasons (July 19, 2007)

AUCC Fair Dealing Guidelines Posted

Tuesday, 21 December 2010

The much anticipated AUCC Fair Delaing Guidlines have been finalized and are in the process of being circulated. While no public release has been announced yet (indeed the whole process has been clouded in secrecy), a copy has been posted here and has also been the subject of discussion on various lists and websites.

See in particular Howard Knopf's postings of Nov 12th, Dec 7th and Dec 21st which point to many problems with an earlier draft. The draft was fundamentally flawed largely because of its unduly restrictive interpretation of fair dealing and its generally over-restrictive approach to utilizing course material. On first glance, the final version appears to contain many of the same problems.

Watch for further and more complete analysis coming soon . . .

I am an Associate Professor at the University of Western Ontario jointly appointed to the Faculty of Law and the Faculty of Information and Media Studies (FIMS).

Before coming to Western, I was a law librarian at the Boalt Hall Law Library at the University of California at Berkeley and before that I was in private law practice in California. My doctoral work in the Department of Information Studies at UCLA focused on information policy issues.

I am currently a Network Investigator and Theme Leader with the GRAND NCE and also serve on the Librarians Committee of the Canadian Association of University Teachers.