Court rules password sharing for subscription constituted fair dealing in 'landmark decision'

By Anosha Khan (June 6, 2024, 4:44 PM EDT) -- In what one copyright law expert is describing as a huge win for copyright user rights in Canada, the Federal Court has found that Parks Canada employees who shared the password for a single account to access a subscription-based news site were engaged in fair dealing under the Copyright Act and did not infringe copyright law. ...