On March 22, 2018, the Federal Court of Appeal (Court) published its decision in The Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency, Operating as Access Copyright v Canada, 2018 FCA 58, dismissing Access Copyright's application for judicial review of a decision by the Copyright Board (Board) certifying the royalties that provincial and territorial governments must
pay Access Copyright for the reproduction of copyright - protected works.
Not exact matches
Last summer, York University declared that it will appeal the July 12, 2017 ruling of the Federal Court of Canada that was made in favor of
Access Copyright, whose tariff on course materials, approved by
Copyright Board of Canada, the university refused to
pay.
Universities have always
paid for the material you used as a student,
Access Copyright just wants them to
pay more; to the point of unreasonableness.
Roanie will be discussing
Access Copyright's ongoing efforts to transform and make the use of
paid or licensed content significantly more convenient than relying on free content.
Through your
Access for Copyshops agreement you commit to report and
pay for paper coursepacks on a quarterly basis, which includes logging the bibliographic details of all published titles in
Access Copyright's repertoire that are copied in the production of coursepacks.
Access Copyright appears to be on the verge of successfully cowing Canadian universities into
paying for their own harassment, and is doing so with the full support of the AUCC.
If you are not interested in these developments then you likely do not have someone close to you in university in Canada nor are you interested in
copyright, fair dealing or open
access, that last one should be a hook for many that haven't
paid attention up until now because, as my Slaw colleague Michael Lines pointed out back in April, this model deal is a swipe against the the free flow of information and an attempt to cut open
access off at the pass, so to speak.
Access Copyright offers a competitive compensation package that includes an incentive
pay plan, and generous employer -
paid group benefits.
In the lawsuit,
Access Copyright is seeking payment by York University of royalties under the
Access Copyright Interim Post-Secondary Education Institutions Tariff, 2011 - 2013 («Approved Tariff»), an injunction until all royalty amounts owing are
paid, and an order requiring the university to abide by the terms of the Approved Tariff.
At issue before the Board were royalties that provincial and territorial governments were required to
pay to
Access Copyright for the years 2010 - 2014.
Under the previous agreement with
Access Copyright, institutions
paid $ 3.38 per full - time equivalent student as well as 10 cents per page for course - pack copying.
The first tariff related to the royalties that should be
paid each year by Canadian elementary and secondary schools (except in Quebec) for the right to make photocopies of books, newspapers and magazines in
Access Copyright's repertoire.
Access Copyright's third tariff proposal related to the royalties that should be
paid by provincial and territorial governments for the reproduction of protected works.
As a UWO student (and at many other Canadian universities,) you automatically
pay an annual fee to an organization called
Access Copyright.
Moreover, he claims that publishers would not suffer significant economic harm if all copying permitted under
Access Copyright licenses or model licenses were fair dealings and no educational institution, whether elementary, secondary, or post-secondary,
paid a penny for all such uses.