ABC Copyright 2024

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The ABC Copyright group is a grassroots organization made up of individuals involved in the day-to-day aspects of copyright and its implication for their respective organizations. Athabasca University was one of the founding institutions in 2002 and runs and maintains the group’s ABC Copyright listserv. The ABC Copyright group has over 380 members comprised mostly of copyright administrators at post-secondary institutions across Canada. Copyright offices, libraries, bookstores, instructional technologies, distance learning, legal offices, and audio/visual units are among the areas represented from these institutions. The general purpose of the group is to share ideas, issues and concerns, potential solutions, and resources through annual conferences and the listserv. The 2024 ABC Copyright Conference took place in Halifax, Nova Scotia at Dalhousie University's Weldon Law Building on June 20-21st, 2024. The sponsoring host of the conference was The Council of Atlantic Academic Libraries - Conseil des bibliothèques postsecondaires de l’Atlantique (CAAL-CBPA) Copyright Committee (https://caul-cbua.ca/committee/copyright-committee) and the planning team consisted of CAAL-CBPA Copyright Committee members and ABC members from across Canada. The conference theme was "Copyright: Riding the Wave."

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Walking the Talk: Establishing Best Practices for Attributing and Licensing Employee-Created Works
(2024-06-20) Martin, Heather; Versluis, Ali
This session explores the obstacles we encountered in our multi-year journey to develop practices that were acceptable to both content creators and content managers, while also respecting the boundaries of institutional IP policies and collective agreements.
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Decoding the "Code of Best Practices in Fair Dealing for Open Educational Resources (OER)"
(2024-06-20) Johnson, Rowena; Savage, Stephanie; Dickison, Josh; Martin, Heather
In 2022 the Canadian Association of Research Libraries struck a working group to create a Canadian adaptation of the US Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Open Educational Resources. Intended to address the relative lack of practical guidance for OER developers regarding the use of third-party copyrighted material in open educational resources (OER), the Canadian Code provides a judicious and legally sound basis for the application of the fair dealing exception in the context of OER creation. As of late 2023, the working group has completed their adaptation and is developing dissemination and implementation strategies to support the Code’s use and adoption by institutions and OER practitioners across Canada.
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Secondary Publishing Rights
(2024-06-20) Selman, Brianne; Swartz, Mark; Guibault, Lucie
An examination of the need for secondary publishing rights in academic publishing, from a Canadian perspective.
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The Pubic Domain Ball: A Play in One Act
(2024-06-20) Grande-Sherbert, Marty
An original creative work by Marty Grande-Sherbert, this one-act play uses characters in Canada's public domain to examine the consequences of public domain term extension. The playwright has dedicated this work to the public domain under CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/), although acknowledge is appreciated where possible.
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Navigating Copyright for Crown-Published Works: A Code of Best Practices for Libraries
(2024-06-20) Wakaruk, Amanda; Zerkee, Jennifer
This session introduces a code of best practices focused on stewardship activities involving Crown Copyright.
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Not Netflix and Chill: Considering How Copyright Anxiety and Legal Chill Impacts the Higher Education Sector
(2024-06-20) Wakaruk, Amanda; Secker, Jane; Morrison, Chris
This session presents the results of a research project that used an adapted Copyright Anxiety Scale and focus groups to learn more about the phenomena of copyright anxiety and chill.
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Schedule of Conference Sessions
(2024-06) ABC Copyright Conference
Schedule of sessions from ABC Copyright 2024.
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Planning Ahead: How to Enact a Multi-Year Strategic Plan for Copyright Services from the Academic Library
(2024-06-20) Thaysen, Shelby
Practical insights on crafting a multi-year strategic plan for copyright services at a college library.
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Externalities of TPMs Access to Digital Content, Repair & Interoperability
(2024-06-21) Rosborough, Anthony; Silins, Katherine
Anthony Rosborough (Assistant Professor of Law and Computer Science at Dalhousie University) and Katherine Silins (Research Assistant and JD Candidate at the Schulich School of Law) will present on recent research into contemporary issues involving Technological Protection Measures under copyright law, including their impacts on the Right to Repair and access to digital content in libraries and archival contexts.
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Risk and Reasonableness in Copyright Decision Making
(2024-06-20) Byl, Lauren
Lack of clarity in the law and institutional risk tolerance can be at odds with professional values, which can confuse users and can undermine librarians providing guidance. This session will provide an overview of a framework I'm exploring for copyright decision making, with an open invitation to discuss how folks handle this issue at their institutions.
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The Fair Dealing Exception Explained
(2024-06-20) Shannon, Meaghan; Swartz, Mark
During this session, attendees will learn the importance of fair dealing, discovering how decisions from the courts can be used to help copyright users conduct six factor fair dealing assessments.
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Copyright Codes of Best Practices for Media Access, Reuse and Preservation
(2024-06-21) Graham, Rumi; Langrell, Kate; McPeak, Taylor; Taylor, Donald
Educators, researchers, artist-scholars, and librarians face a pressing need to be able to continue to access, preserve, and reuse media content. Barriers to access, preservation, and reuse are increasing as copyright owners continue to use technology to lock-down access and move the industry away from physical formats towards streaming media and licensing, and the resultant overriding of copyright exceptions.
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The Future of Controlled Digital Lending
(2024-06-20) Hansen, Dave
Dave Hansen, Executive Director of Authors Alliance and co-author of the US position statement and legal white paper on controlled digital lending, will explain the most recent developments in the pivotal Hachette v. Internet Archive fair use case and offer points of comparison and contrast with CDL under fair dealing in Canada.
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The Public Domain: Setting the Stage + The "Public Domain Ball: A Copyright Murder Mystery"
(2024-06-21) Brin, Lise; Grande-Sherbert, Marty
Lise Brin will start off this session with a short review of the history and role of the public domain. Then Marty will give some background as to the play's origins and aims.
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Building Canadian Digital Libraries
(2024-06-21) Kahle, Brewster; Rothier, Peter; Mills, Andrea
A look at what the Internet Archive hopes to achieve in Canada.
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Assessing the use of CanLit in teaching at Simon Fraser University
(2024-06-21) Taylor, Donald; Zerkee, Jennifer
Concerns have been raised by Canadian authors, publishers, and their collective societies regarding the use of their works in Canadian post-secondaries. In light of these concerns, we have collected and analyzed data on the use of creative and, specifically, Canadian creative literary works for teaching purposes by instructors at SFU, for the period 2018 through 2022.

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