Topic: Intellectual property

Free speech and expression rights, Intellectual property, Research and innovation, Students

Trolling and doxxing: Graduate students sharing their research online speak out about hate

Alex Borkowski, York University, Canada; Marion Tempest Grant, York University, Canada, and Natalie Coulter, York University, Canada

An increasingly volatile online environment is affecting our society, including members of the academic community and research they pursue. Graduate students are […]

Three people stand together in a computer lab talking.

Intellectual property, Teaching and learning, Technology

Beyond the hype: How AI could change the game for social science research

Igor Grossmann, University of Waterloo

Intellectual property, Open learning, open access, and open source, Technology

ChatGPT: Student insights are necessary to help universities plan for the future

Alpha Abebe, McMaster University and Fenella Amarasinghe, York University, Canada

A close up of a hand painting on a canvas

Arts and culture, Intellectual property, Open learning, open access, and open source, Research and innovation, Students, Teaching and learning, Technology

ChatGPT, DALL-E 2 and the collapse of the creative process

Nir Eisikovits, UMass Boston and Alec Stubbs, UMass Boston

A person wearing protective clothing and a mask doing work in a science lab.

Academic freedom, Academic mentorship, Corporatization and commercialization, Funding, Intellectual property

Why we need open-source science innovation — not patents and paywalls

Joshua M. Pearce, Western University

Equity and social justice, Intellectual property, Students, Tuition and student fees, Universities and the academic mission

Fair access to university depends on much more than making students ‘job-ready’

Sally Patfield, University of Newcastle

Shutterstock Today is World Access to Higher Education Day, but Australia is still a long way off fair access for students from […]

Intellectual property, Online education, Teaching and learning, Technology

What is fair dealing in copyright? Here’s why it matters when moving classes online due to coronavirus

Samuel E. Trosow, Western University and Lisa Macklem, Western University

Educational institutions have long been concerned about the risk of being sued for copyright infringement, and a mass movement online introduces new […]

Hiring, promotion, and tenure, Intellectual property, Journals and publishing, Open learning, open access, and open source, Students

Textbooks could be free if universities rewarded professors for writing them

James M. Skidmore, University of Waterloo

Universities have a responsibility to reduce barriers in student learning, and one way to do this is through creating textbooks that […]

Corporatization and commercialization, Funding, Governance, Intellectual property, Research and innovation, Tuition and student fees

As public postsecondary funding stagnates, the University of Toronto explores “alternative funding sources”

Mariana Valverde

Universities increasingly rely on student fees and other alternative funding sources to make up for falling levels of government support, but perhaps […]

Arts and culture, Intellectual property, Public policy

A parent’s view of educational copying and #CopyrightReview

Meera Nair

Dear Mr. Boissonnault: I write in connection to remarks you made on November 22, during a meeting of the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage (beginning […]