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The Supreme Court of Canada heard five copyright cases over dense two-day hearings on Dec. 6-7.  One of the cases involved the application of the concept of fair dealing with copyrighted works in education.  At the heart of this appeal was a key distinction made by Copyright Board between copies of works made by students or at their initiative, which could be fair dealing, and copies made by a teacher for students with instructions to read them, which could not.  The distinction is summarized in para. 118 of the Board’s decision: a copy made by a teacher with instructions to …

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The Centre for Innovation Law and Policy has submitted its factum in the K-12 fair dealing case before the Supreme Court of Canada. The Court is going to hear the case on Dec. 7.

UPDATE: The Court granted CILP’s motion for leave to intervene (as well as all other motions). Last Tuesday the Centre for Innovation Law and Policy (CILP) filed a motion for leave to intervene in the K-12 fair dealing case before the Supreme Court of Canada.  The motion was filed after the deadline of September 12, 2011, along with a request for an extension of time to do so, mainly on the basis that CILP had assumed that the proposed academic interveners, particularly the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada (AUCC), would adequately represent the interests of the university community …

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