Fair dealing: We’ve got it, let’s use it. Review of Rosemary Coombe et al's Dynamic Fair Dealing

Abstract

This review of Rosemary Coombe et al's edited collection Dynamic Fair Dealing: Creating Canadian culture online (University of Toronto Press, 2014) sketches the global and Canadian copyright contexts that make this book so timely and important for Canadian academics, and critically assesses the book's contributions, noting highlights among individual chapters and arguments common to the whole. The review queries in particular a curious contradiction between the book's stated commitment to improving digital, public access to knowledge and its form as a paperbound volume with no digital Open Access edition beyond a handful of individual chapters made available by individual contributors.