The Superintendent of Schools for Kootenay Lake District is pleased with the BC Supreme Court's decision to overturn a copyright ruling.

 

The Copyright Board had determined educators were required to pay a royalty fee in order to photocopy parts of a textbook for student use.  Jeff Jones says having to pay for both the fee and the actual photocopying would be cost prohibitive for school districts and even moreso for post secondary institutions.

 

The Supreme Court has now sent the issue back to the Copyright Board.  Jones says a bigger and more compicated issue in the future will be copyright rules for sharing information through digital technology.