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Description: This study is examining the 2017-2019 Parliamentary review of Canada’s Copyright Act by the Industry, Science, and Technology (INDU) Committee, focusing on the impact the discourse around copyright in Canada has on legislative change. We will do this by investigating the recommendations for amendments to the Copyright Act, and the rationales put forward to support them, made to the INDU Committee by various types of stakeholders, as well as the interactions between stakeholders and committee members in their meetings. We aim to make connections between these contributions and the committee’s own resulting report and recommendations, as well as with any responses or actions taken by the federal government. Our primary focus will be on areas of discussion and debate relevant to higher education, including fair dealing, collective licensing in Canada, Indigenous rights, Crown copyright, technological protection measures, and contract override of user rights. We have a particular interest in using our findings to support future advocacy for copyright and user rights in higher education and libraries. See the Wiki for our publications and presentations. A number of our data files and codebooks are available below. Co-Principal Investigators: Jennifer Zerkee, Copyright Specialist, Simon Fraser University; Stephanie Savage, Scholarly Communications and Copyright Services Librarian, University of British Columbia Research Assistants: Arianna Alcaraz (University of Alberta School of Library and Information Studies) 2023-2024; Will Power-Jenkins (University of Toronto iSchool) 2022-2023; Jentry Campbell (UBC iSchool) 2020-2021; Jessi Robinson (UBC iSchool) 2021 This project has received funding from an SFU/SSHRC Small Explore Grant (2022) and a CARL Research in Librarianship Grant (2020).