Copyright reaction continues: is a happy medium even possible?

TORONTO and OTTAWA - We don’t envy the job that Industry Minister Tony Clement and Heritage Minister James Moore have ahead of them as they try to balance the often conflicting demands of Canada’s numerous copyright stakeholders.After initial reactions from the likes of ACTRA and others to the new draft copyright legislation released last week, one suspects that the old adage ‘you can’t please everyone’ will once again hold true. The Sameulson-Glushko Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic (CIPPIC) said that Bill C-32 “offers many important and welcome exceptions and creation rights”, but at the same time “imports the worst of...