Access Copyright receives a fee from large institutions (educational, government) in order to provide licensing rights to protected content and ensure copyright holders are compensated.
Late last year, institutions started to receive word of a substantial increase in the Access Copyright fees for the upcoming year. Access Copyright claims that they are about to make a lot more material available to these institutions, so the cost is justified.
In response, the Association of Universities and Colleges in Canada (AUCC) issued a fair dealing policy of their own (http://copyright.info.yorku.ca/fair-dealing-guidelines/) that membership institutions could choose to adopt that allows them to manage their own copyright processes no longer requiring the Access Copyright license and associated fees.
Access Copyright receives a fee from large institutions (educational, government) in order to provide licensing rights to protected content and ensure copyright holders are compensated.
Late last year, institutions started to receive word of a substantial increase in the Access Copyright fees for the upcoming year. Access Copyright claims that they are about to make a lot more material available to these institutions, so the cost is justified.
In response, the Association of Universities and Colleges in Canada (AUCC) issued a fair dealing policy of their own (http://copyright.info.yorku.ca/fair-dealing-guidelines/) that membership institutions could choose to adopt that allows them to manage their own copyright processes no longer requiring the Access Copyright license and associated fees.
Access Copyright disagrees (http://www.accesscopyright.ca/educators/fair-dealing-in-the-...) and claims that institutions will not be fully covered by the AUCC policy.
More: http://excesscopyright.blogspot.com/2010/12/auccs-final-fair...