Reviewing Canadian Copyright Policy

June 19, 2017

Policy Options / Options politiques, the Institute for Research on Public Policy’s (IRPP) public policy and research analysis magazine, is publishing a series of analyses of the current state of the copyright regime in Canada, what should be changed, and what should be left alone.

Reforming the Copyright Act was a tough slog the last time around, a balancing act for policy-makers and legislators, who heard from wildly different perspectives on what would be best for consumers, creators, and the businesses that deal with original work. Five years have passed, and the time has come for the required review of the Act. Our contributors, writing from multiple vantage points, offer their analyses of the current state of the copyright regime in Canada, what should be changed, and what should be left alone.

September 22, 2017
Rethinking Crown copyright law / Jean Dryden

August 31, 2017
Reviewing copyright? Check the history / Meera Nair

July 13, 2017
Reviewing copyright? Check the glossary. / John Degan

July 11, 2017
Canadian copyright policy is so 2012 / Michael Geist
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July 5, 2017
Copyright and innovation / Matthew Marinett

July 3, 2017
The elusive data behind copyright reform / Bob Tarantino

June 28, 2017
Le libre accès aux publications scientifiques / Florence Piron

June 28, 2017
Rethinking copyright for Indigenous creative works / Chidi Oguamanam

June 27, 2017
Who owns Indigenous cultural and intellectual property? / Andrea Bear Nicholas

June 26, 2017
A Copyright Board for Canada at 150 / Margaret Ann Wilkinson

June 22, 2017
Droit d’auteur : protéger l’utilisation équitable / Robert Proulx

June 20, 2017
Vers une réelle modernisation du droit d’auteur / ADISQ

June 19, 2017
Once more into the copyright breach / Howard Knopf

June 16, 2017
The value gap in Canada’s cultural industries / Graham Henderson

June 15, 2017
How copyright impacts post-secondary education / Rosanne Waters

June 14, 2017
Libraries and the copyright (balancing) act / Victoria Owen

June 13, 2017
La rémunération des créateurs : revoir la philosophie juridique / Normand Tamaro

June 12, 2017
What’s next, after the 2012 copyright overhaul? / Michael Geist