Laura Murray is an Associate Professor in the English Department of Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, and creator of the website www.faircopyright.ca.
Samuel Trosow is an Associate Professor at the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario. He is jointly appointed in the Faculty of Law and the Faculty of Information and Media Studies.
The much anticipated AUCC Fair Delaing Guidlines have been finalized and are in the process of being circulated. While no public release has been announced yet (indeed the whole process has been clouded in secrecy), a copy has been posted here and has also been the subject of discussion on various lists and websites.
See in particular Howard Knopf's postings of Nov 12th, Dec 7th and Dec 21st which point to many problems with an earlier draft. The draft was fundamentally flawed largely because of its unduly restrictive interpretation of fair dealing and its generally over-restrictive approach to utilizing course material. On first glance, the final version appears to contain many of the same problems.
Watch for further and more complete analysis coming soon . . .
I am an Associate Professor at the University of Western Ontario jointly appointed to the Faculty of Law and the Faculty of Information and Media Studies (FIMS).
Before coming to Western, I was a law librarian at the Boalt Hall Law Library at the University of California at Berkeley and before that I was in private law practice in California. My doctoral work in the Department of Information Studies at UCLA focused on information policy issues.
