Author Archives: bhaggart

Low Stakes in the Access Copyright Fight: $175 per author per year

Posted on August 20, 2011 by bhaggart

DC Reid, over at Creators’ Access Copyright, responds to John Degen’s full-throated defence of Access Copyright (covered here and here), by reminding us what is at stake for creators in the whole Access Copyright-universities battle royale. In short, not very … Continue reading →

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Cutting Copyright’s Red Tape

Posted on August 18, 2011 by bhaggart

One other thing: John Degen’s one-sided opinion piece (is that redundant?) inadvertently highlights the absolutely vital need for Canada’s Copyright Act to be simplified so that anybody can understand it. As Degen points out, in the absence of a blanket … Continue reading →

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Access Copyright: The Globe and Mail’s One-Sided Story

Posted on August 18, 2011 by bhaggart

I don’t quite know where to start with John Degen’s attack in the Globe and Mail on the decision of 26 educational institutions (and counting) to opt out of Access Copyright (which collects royalties for Canadian authors mainly from Canadian educational institutions, after … Continue reading →

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Google and the evil that lobbyists do?

Posted on August 16, 2011 by bhaggart

I’m looking forward to reading Robert Levine’s Free Ride: How the Internet Is Destroying the Culture Business and How the Culture Business Can Fight Back, although I’ll probably wait until our library here at ANU orders it. At $28.95 for … Continue reading →

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In praise of evidence-based copyright policy

Posted on August 3, 2011 by bhaggart

When I started studying copyright policymaking several years ago, what surprised me most was the the almost complete lack of empirical evidence underlying both existing copyright law and copyright-reform proposals. I’m talking about impartial economic analyses of the effects of … Continue reading →

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