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"What is lost with this settlement is the chance for something better. The shift away from Access Copyright in recent months has led to a growing awareness of the large number of licensed materials on university campuses, the benefits of open access, the emergence of open educational resources, and the move to digital course materials. Investing in new open materials - which pay the creator but allow for more flexible use and reuse - would offer innovative teaching materials at the very time that Canadian higher education should be rethinking how course materials are developed and disseminated in a digital world. This is hard work as new models require real investment, commitment from faculty, and patience from students. The payoff would have been significant, but the AUCC is seemingly more interested in "cost certainty" than in education innovation. The big question now is whether its members feel the same. My guess is that most will sign, but perhaps some will carefully assess their experience of operating outside the collective and see some short term pain for long term gain. "

New agreement re ACCESS copyright this week.

Copyright and Creative Commons made easy.

Copyright law is back on the table

Online journal dedicated to showcasing the most interesting and unusual out-of-copyright works available on the web

"AcademicPub provides custom books - print and digital - to educators and institutions. We provide real-time copyright clearance and an ever-expanding content library to easily create and deliver learning materials in just minutes."

Interesting article about a lawsuit related to the development of apps that allow students to pull specific information from etexts. Gets into copyright issues / crossing the line.

If you are interested in education and intellectual property you might be interested in part of this pod cast (Time stamp: 14:23)