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Canadian Copyright, Fair Dealing and Education, Part Four: The Disappearance of Course Packs

Michael Geist

This decreased reliance and, in some cases, total abandonment of traditional copying is shown in examples from several universities across the country: Mount Saint Vincent University has not sold print course packs for the last 10+ years, except for occasional material that is in the public domain. between 2002 and 2021.

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Making College (Textbooks) Affordable

Velocity of Content

Publishing industry analyst Bill Rosenblatt wrote for Publishers Weekly that higher education is the publishing segment undergoing the most disruptive changes today. Click below to listen to the latest episode of the Velocity of Content podcast.

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Protecting Indigenous Traditional Knowledge Using An Approach Based On Holistic Principle

IP and Legal Filings

2004) 18(3) (3) Higher Education Journal of South Africa, Lesley le Grange [ii] Stanislav Ksenofontov, Norman Backhaus, and Gabriela Schaepman-Strub, There are New Species: Indigenous Knowledge of Biodiversity Change in Arctic Yakutia, 42(1) Polar Geography, 34, 35 (2019). [vi] vi] United Nations University, 2015, pp.