Copyright: Consumer Versus Artists

This week Ottawa will try once again to update Canada’s copyright law that Industry Minister Tony Clement says has holes big enough to drive a Mack truck through. The Copyright Act of Canada has not had a significant rewrite since 1988, at a time when the Internet was still in its infancy and an iPad was just a twinkle in some inventor’s eye. The trick — one the Conservatives and Liberals before them couldn’t master — is to find a balance between right of consumers’ and the rights of the artists or creators to not have their work ripped off