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Students pledge to fight new copyright agreement
http://www.sacbee.com/2012/04/24/4437663/students-pledge-to-fight-new-copyright.html
By Canadian Federation of Students
Canadian Federation of Students
Last modified: 2012-04-24T12:13:45Z
Published: Tuesday, Apr. 24, 2012 - 5:12 am
OTTAWA, April 24, 2012 -- /PRNewswire/ - Students will fight to reject the
new agreement recently signed between Access Copyright and the Association
of Universities and Colleges of Canada (AUCC). The agreement will impose new
fees on students, restrict the accessibility of educational material and
raise concern for the respect of privacy of students and faculty.
"The agreement is being rejected by students and professors and we will
fight its implementation however we can," says Roxanne Dubois, National
Chairperson of the Canadian Federation of Students. "Rather than paying to
finance open access publications, purchase site licenses and promote fair
dealing, the money from this agreement will instead be pocketed by large,
mostly foreign owned publishing companies."
Earlier this week, the AUCC, representing Canadian college and university
administrators, signed a model license with Access Copyright, an
organisation representing commercial publishing interests, that purports to
grant certain copying rights on campus. In exchange the institutions
received vague protections against being sued for copyright infringement.
Access Copyright also has a record of using the fees imposed on students to
finance its lobbying campaigns to defeat copyright reforms necessary to
advance research and education.
"We are further concerned about the creation of a survey mechanism that
would aim to monitor electronic correspondences and spy on students and
faculty," added Dubois. "We are calling on university administrations to
reject this arrangement and instead work with students to build a better
copyright model, not spend our money shoring up an obsolete one."
The Canadian Federation of Students is Canada's largest student
organisation, uniting more that one-half million students in all ten
provinces. The Federation and its predecessor organisations have represented
students in Canada since 1927.
SOURCE Canadian Federation of Students
April 24, 1:53 PM PDT
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