occasional page from a book, amounting to no more than 4.5 pages per student per school year." Note, however, this restatement of the facts does not come from the Court's judgment, but is extrapolated from the Appellants' factum: the "occasional one page" was mentioned only as an example. The Court itself, however, described the facts in a much broader and general manner, and, of course, laid down general principles that are supposed to apply in other factual settings. This is what the Supreme Court does, and this is why in addition to the parties themselves, several organizations sought and were granted leaves to intervene. The Supreme Court does not hear appeals from every decision of lower courts. Ordinarily, the Court select a small number of cases and only hear appeals that raise questions of "public importance". And when it decides these cases, it tends to decide them in a manner that can be applied in other settings because "much of the Court's work ... require[s] the development of a general analytical framework which necessarily [goes] beyond what was essential for the disposition of the particular case." [1] In his current post, however, Mr. Sookman would like his readers to believe that the Supreme Court's ruling in Alberta v. Access Copyright is relevant only to the extremely specific facts that he describes. He further claims that Michael Geist "fails to recognize that the Access Copyright decision did not address any other forms of copying including for example only: Copying in post-secondary