Tuesday, February 14, 2012

The University of Toronto Deal with Access Copyright & Governance Issues


(UofT)

Prof. Katz of the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto has an important blog about "governance" issues arising out of the the recent controversial deal between UofT and Access Copyright. 

Prof. Katz begins:
In addition to serious copyright, privacy, and academic freedom problems arising from the Agreement signed last week between UofT and Access Copyright, the way it has been handled so far raises some questions about whether it is consistent with UofT’s governance procedures.
The last clause of the agreement makes it  "conditional upon applicable Governance approval..."

The agreement can be found here, in the blog post that first mentioned the deal. It is interesting that the agreement was first made available to the general pubic on this blog and NOT by the University of Toronto, or Western which also cut presumably the same deal. 

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