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September 18, 2012 12:00 pm PDT
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/lgv2Xc_pyzc/a-mandatory-180-art-school-te.html
A mandatory $180 art school textbook about "prehistory to 1800" with no pictures, thanks to a lack of mysterious "copyright clearances"
Students enrolled in the Ontario College of Art and Design's Global Visual and Material Culture: Prehistory to 1800 are required to buy a $180 "custom textbook." Despite exclusively covering material that is, by definition, in the public domain, and despite a Canadian Supreme Court ruling that establishes a broad "fair dealing" exemption for educational materials, [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/lgv2Xc_pyzc/a-mandatory-180-art-school-te.html
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