IP law prof Guiseppina D’Agostino has done an analysis of the meaning of fair dealing in Canada after the Supreme Court of Canada’s CCH decision of 2004, (which, she notes, puts the SCC in the position of “championing user rights above all other rights.”) The study, “Healing Fair Dealing,” is done for Canadian Heritage and available on their website here.
While we are doing our biblio work, let’s note law prof Daniel Gervais’s thoughts on “The Purpose of Copyright Law in Canada.” Eye-catching quote in the first few lines: “the almost non-existent role of Parliament in setting [copyright] policy at the macro level.”