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A Noticeboard update on copyright indicates the U of L's review of the recently announced new model license for copying will be conducted "carefully to ensure that if the U of L enters into any copyright agreement it is in the best interests of our students and our faculty."

Today, April 23, is UNESCO's World Book and Copyright Day, which celebrates reading and the protection of intellectual property through copyright.  April 23 was chosen because it is the birth or death date of a number of world-reknowned authors, including Cervantes and Shakespeare who died on April 23, 1616.  In a similar spirit, on April 26 the World Intellectual Property Office (WIPO) will celebrate World Intellectual Property Day, chosen because April 26, 1970 is the day on which the WIPO Convention came into force.

Yesterday Access Copyright and the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada (AUCC) announced the signing of a new model license covering the reproduction of copyright-protected works in print and digital format.  The announcements indicate that license terms include an annual royalty of $26.00 per full-time equivalent student and that a survey methodology for gathering bibliographic and usage data will be designed jointly in the next six months, but access to the full-text of the license is not provided.