Copyright+Act+and+Educational+Institutions

There is a section of the copyright act that deals specifically with educational institutions (part 3 Infringement of copyright and moral rights exceptions and there infringements exceptions educational institutions Section 29.4-29.5). An educational institution is deemed as having no motive for financial gain other than recovering its costs, including all overhead costs. There is some leeway here for photo copying using flip charts and the use of overhead projectors for the purpose of projecting images onto a screen. The reason for this I believe is to allow the educational system to operate with some sort of freedom from the crippling effects of lawsuits and the never ending quest for permission to use material in such a way as to advance the human race in the knowledge that people have produced or discovered.

As an employee of BCIT we have to be in compliance "copyright compliance" we must assme that copyright exists on all published works and we must ensure that any copying complies with the copyright act or is within the limits of the access copyright license agreement or any other licence agreement that may exist at BCIT, or obtain permission if it is beyond those limits. BCIT has entered into a number of agreements including Access copyright.

Access Copyright

Access copyright is a not for profit agency that represents Canadian copyright holders within Canada except Quebec, which has its own agency. It has agreements with copyright holders which includes writers and publishers and they negotiate license agreements with institutions like BCIT on behalf of the copyright holders. Access Copyright deals with most Canadian publishers, but not those published in the Access copyright exclusions list