Is Access Copyright's new agreement a form of liability insurance?

Michael Geist has posed the idea that the new AC agreement is actually a very expensive form of liability insurance.

Howard Knopf takes this idea further and suggests that if it is a form of insurance, then AC is technically breaking Ontario law.

Of course, it is not the universities and colleges (which may or may not sign the model agreement) that will be paying for this "copyright insurance," but the students.

In other, lighter news...

The Vancouver Public Library has been rated the second most beautiful in the world!

It is one good looking library.  Though I have to say (without snarkiness) that the winner looks a little like it came out of an IKEA box...