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Stories · 3

  1. Universities Agree To Email Monitoring For Copyright Agency

    News · Canada · · posted by Soulskill · from the somebody-forgot-to-read-the-fine-print dept. · 165 comments
    New submitter fish waffle writes "The universities of Western Ontario and Toronto have signed a deal with Access Copyright that allows for surveillance of faculty correspondence, defines e-mailing hyperlinks as equivalent to photocopying a document, and imposes an annual $27.50 fee for every full-time equivalent student to pay for it all. Access Copyright is a licensing agency historically used by most universities in Canada to give them blanket permission to reproduce copyrighted works, largely to address photocopying concerns that may extend beyond basic fair-use. Since the expiration of this agreement, and with recognition that many academic uses do not require copyright permissions or payments or are already covered under vendor-specific agreements, Canadian academic institutions have been united in opposing continuation of the agreement with the agency. Access Copyright has countered with a proposal for increased fees, and expansion of the definition of copyright to include linking and the need for online surveillance. In a strange breaking of ranks, the University of Western Ontario and the University of Toronto have capitulated and signed agreements that basically accede to the licensing agency's demands. The Canadian Association of University Teachers bulletin provides detailed background on the issue (PDF)."

  2. Captain Copyright Targets Kids

    · posted by ryuzaki0 · from the up-in-the-sky-what-is-that dept. · 430 comments
    frank249 writes "The Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency has set up a copyright education website called Captain Copyright. There is a section for kids with comic books and a section for teachers for grades 1-3, 3-6 and 6-8. An example of a grade 1 class activity: 'Present the following situation to students: Your friend is downloading a song off the Internet. In comes Captain Copyright. Ask: What do you think Captain Copyright will say? Encourage students to brainstorm. Then hand out (or read) Line Master: Some Copyright Laws.' In Canadian law it is incorrect to download a song unless you pay for it. They also neglect to mention that Canadians pay a tax on blank media that is meant to compensate artists for downloads."

  3. Canadian Government Subsidizes DRM

    Yro · Music · · posted by timothy · from the the-smell-of-a-free-market-burning dept. · 31 comments
    MikeOttawa writes "According to the Ministry of Canadian Heritage [Government of Canada] website, the Canadian Government has 'announced a total of $2,746,530 in funding for three organizations to develop online copyright management and licensing systems.' Three companies are mentioned in the press release, Access Copyright, COPIBEC and RightsMarket Inc. Each are receiving close to $1,000,000 CDN to 'build invaluable databases that will facilitate the management of copyrights, improve copyright compliance, increase royalties to Canadian content creators, and promote the use of Canadian content throughout the world.' Does that scare everyone else as much as me. It makes me wonder why the Canadian Government is also increasing the subsidy [Slashdot.org] paid to content creators from the sale of digital media like CDs ..."