Legal Opinion Documents
In 2008, as technological capacity (and affordability) as well as concerns about online access to journal content had become of increasing interest to the journal community, many CALJ journals were asking questions about back-issue digitization. With the support of the journal community, of partners in the research community in Canada, and of the Canada Magazine Fund, CALJ commissioned a legal opinion on the rights and responsibilities of journals with regard to back-issue digitization.
Please click here for an electronic copy of the document.
Shortly after the document was released, incidentally, many journals in Canada found themselves implicated in a class action lawsuit involving Heather Robertson and Proquest. CALJ also contributed resources to ensuring that the interests of journals were understood and protected.
