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Copyright abroad: Canadian students release recommendations for copyright bill
Canadian students have proposed a series of recommendations for Bill C-32 the Copyright Modernization Act to ensure it strikes a fair balance between the rights of users and creators, in a submission to Parliament.
The recommendations, submitted by the Canadian Federation of Students at the request of the Special Legislative Committee studying C-32, focused on ensuring students, teachers and other members of the post-secondary education community have fair access to copyrighted works and that the bill supports innovative and creative educational practices. In particular, the submission recommends that the expansion of the right to fair dealing-to include education-proposed in Bill C-32 be adopted. It also proposes a series of amendments be made to the digital locks provisions to stop Canadians from being criminalized for their legal uses of copyrighted works.
"Educational fair dealing will grant students and teachers access to copyrighted materials while ensuring that creators continue to be compensated fairly for the use of their work," said Dave Molenhuis, National Chairperson of the Canadian Federation of Students.
In addition, the submission recommended changes to a number of the special exceptions proposed in Bill C-32 and recommended that proposals to reduce statutory damages and adopt a notice-and-notice regime for internet service provider liability be adopted.