IIC Canada: How deep does copyright review need to go?

By Perry Hoffman

OTTAWA – It’s been five years since Canada’s copyright laws got a major makeover and now the federal government is going to determine whether more changes are needed (a re-examination every five years is now part of the rules). A session at the International Institute of Communications’ Canadian event in Ottawa on Tuesday dove into what needs to change, or not.A paper written by Jay Kerr-Wilson, a partner at Fasken Martineau DuMoulin, and Kristina Milbourn, director of copyright and broadband at Rogers Communications, raised a number of issues including the need for copyright reform, the potential for streamlined decision making...