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Copyright law a win for consumer, educators, and telecoms as court reins in multiple fees
Saturday, July 14th, 2012
July 12, 2012
Consumers and educators emerged victorious in several significant Supreme Court of Canada rulings that effectively modernize Canadian copyright law. Thursday, the court released its judgments in five different cases that touched on tariffs set by the Copyright Board governing music downloading, photocopying textbooks, videogames and movie and TV soundtracks… while it’s unfair for a teacher to photocopy an entire textbook to avoid buying it, the average teacher copies fewer than 10 pages per student per year, Andrew says. Countries like the United States, Germany and Japan already have similar guidelines in place
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