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Copyright-A Bane For The Students Or A Boon For Copyright Owners?

IP and Legal Filings

Among the other solutions, the most easy and feasible way to come out of the problem of unavailability and unaffordability was to start copying the books, study materials, and video lectures with the help of different mechanisms. If copyright protection is applied rigidly, it will hamper progress of the society.

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Canadian Copyright, Fair Dealing and Education, Part One: Setting the Record Straight

Michael Geist

Canadian copyright lobby groups have relentlessly lobbied the government to overturn decades of Supreme Court of Canada jurisprudence, seeking unprecedented restrictions on fair dealing that include eliminating it for educational institutions if a licence is available. The addition of “education” was hardly an overhaul.

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A research-friendly copyright system is a flexible copyright system

Kluwer Copyright Blog

It has been a year since the German Social Democrats, Greens and Liberals formed the German government and published their coalition agreement, which promises to make Germany’s copyright law more research friendly. The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed many shortcomings of existing European copyright exceptions for research and education.