Canadian Class Action Suit

From: Bernard Katz <bkatz[_at_]uoguelph.ca>
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 13:06:14 -0500 ()

It may be of interest to the list that a Canadian judge has ruled in favour of a class action suit (rare in Canadian jurisprudence) going ahead in the area of independent writers preventing Canadian newspaper and periodical publishers from using their works in electronic data bases, to which they sell public access but for which use they have no authorization and provide no compensation to the authors.

Cheers,

Bernard Katz, Head, Special Collections and Library Development
McLaughlin Library, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON  Canada  N1G 2W1
         and Chair, Ontario Library Association Copyright Action Committee

e-m: bkatz[_at_]uoguelph.ca // v: 519-824-4120, ext.2089 // fax: 519-824-6931 Received on Tue Feb 16 1999 - 18:11:07 GMT