Universities need to stop stealing

Universities, and others in Canada’s education sector, have decided Canadian authors should work for free. Universities do not want to have to pay for the books and publications they use to teach, so they just stopped, claiming wholesale theft is actually “fair” in accordance with the Copyright Act (Canada), in spite of the Federal Court and the Federal Court of Appeal telling them they are wrong. Now the whole mess is in the hands of the Supreme Court of Canada, whose decisions on copyright are typically unpredictable and wrong. The government desperately needs to act, if it cares for creators at all. My Financial Post op ed is here.