Copyright and tariff overhaul required: CAB

NEW YORK – There are too many tariffs and too many changes going on in the digital world for the existing copyright and tariff regime to continue in its current form, says Canadian Association of Broadcasters president and CEO Glenn O'Farrell. In a speech last week during a conference on international intellectual property law and policy at Fordham University in New York, O'Farrell looked to 1926 – at the CAB's first meeting 80 years ago in Toronto – where copyright was the main reason for the group's initial gathering. A consensus between broadcasters and creators was arrived at then –...