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Canada’s Fair Dealing law allows writers’ works to be “stolen”

by Gary Geddes in the Montreal Gazette, 12 May 2021

Author and creative writing lecturer Gary Geddes asks “What’s fair about so-called “fair dealing?” The school janitor gets paid, teachers and principal get paid, coaches gets paid, so, too, do school board officials. Even ministers of Culture, Education and Heritage get paid, but obviously far too much if they don’t realize there’s a group that’s shockingly absent from this list: yes, the writers, whose works form such a significant part of the educational curriculum. My intellectual property and theirs is being stolen.”

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