In this columnist and University of Ottawa law professor Michael Geist questions the need for the recent agreement between the Association of Universities and Colleges Canada (which includes UWO) and its controversial new agreement with Access Copyright, which will cost students an extra $26 per full time student per year, in large part to get copyright access to materials that they can already access! Geist, who holds a Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-commerce Law, says
If that wasn’t enough, the model licence purports to grants rights for copying that does not require permission. For example, it defines copying as including “posting a link or hyperlink to a digital copy”, yet linking to content can hardly be described as copying materials.
If would even prevent storing articles in cloud services such as Dropbox! I’m not going to get too excited since the company is covering my costs on this one so what the heck.
But maybe you should!