A New Three-Step Syllabus Rule for Dealing Fairly With University Course Readings
The 2020 appeals court ruling inĀ York University v. The Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency, declared YorkāsĀ fair dealing guidelines, which attempted to set out the terms for fairly using articles and chapters in the universityās courses without paying royalty fees, to be other than fair to authors and publishers. The court notes that āYork did not justify [its claim to āfair dealingā] beyond invoking education as an allowable purposeā (258). In the face of the courtās refusal of Yorkās blanket appeal to the fair dealing exception to copyright infringement, and now that the case is headed to the Supreme Court, I want to set out for your consideration a different approach to dealing fairly with this particular publishing marketplace.
Read theĀ full article on Slaw, Canadaās online legal magazine.