Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Society - Oh Canada! How Not to Reform Copyright

Canada is now in the humiliating position of being the world%u2019s best example of how not to reform copyright. Having experienced the relentless pressure for new exceptions and exemptions, and the frustration of seeing government consider proposed exceptions as though they are somehow progressive and reforming, I want to encourage my overseas colleagues to stand strong for your creators%u2019 rights. There is, in my opinion, nothing progressive about broad exceptions to copyright, even those proposed for motherhood concerns like education and library collection. Instead, they represent a regressive deregulation designed to do little more than transform earned income for writers into cost-savings for financial administrators and extra profit for free-culture digital businesses.