Frankfurt Book Fair 2017: Concern that Canadian Copyright Disaster Could Spread
lkfitz's bookmarks 2017-10-14
Summary:
"Canadian publisher Glenn Rollans, president of the Association of Canadian Publishers, explained to attendees how the law has devastated Canadian publishers, noting that the addition of "education" as a purpose for fair dealing (the Canadian equivalent of fair use in the U.S.) in the 2012 legislation has meant that both the k-12 and higher education sectors in Canada now claim for free the same copies for which they had previously paid license fees. And that, Rollans said, has blown a more than C$50 million hole in publishers' revenues."