Canadian Educators Sue Copyright Organization

In the years since the Modernization Act, many educational institutions have paid Copyright Access nothing at all, taking advantage of the vague language of the act. The result has been an unmitigated disaster for Canadian educational publishing, with estimated losses of some C$50 million in payments to publishers over the last five years. For 2017, Access Copyright estimated payouts dropped from C$11 million in 2016 to C$5 million. Most education publishers have also claimed a reduction in textbook orders, some as much as 90%, over the same period. Meanwhile, Access Copyright estimates that the education sector copies 150 million pages from copyright-protected works each year.