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The Edmonton and Quebec City Copyright Roundtables

Thursday September 3, 2009

The goverment has now posted the audio of the recent Edmonton and Quebec City roundtables.  Both roundtables featured a wide range of perspectives.  The chart below highlights the key positions of each speaker.  I will post a chart of all roundtable positions once the audio of the Toronto and Peterborough roundtables have been posted.

 

Roundtable Location
Name and Organization
Key Messages
Edmonton
Linda Cameron, University of Alberta Press
Opposed to expanding fair dealing, no  broad education exemption, copyright collectives, protect TPMs
Shane Kennedy, Lone Pine Productions
Protect TPMs, no vague fair dealing
Ernie Ingles, Vice Provost, University of Alberta
Fair dealing, circumvention for non-infringing purposes, abolish Crown Copyright, flexibility
Myrna Kostash, Writer No change to fair dealing, no new exceptions, strengthen collective licensing
Jane Bisbee, Alberta Motion Picture Industries Association
Fairness for both sides
Chris Henderson, University of Alberta Students Union
Access to copyrighted materials for education and research
Alexandra Hatcher, Alberta Museums Association
Research and study exemptions for museums
Rick Leech, Library Association of Alberta
Balance, fair dealing, research and education exemptions, circumvention for non-infringing purposes, end Crown Copyright, access for the disabled, notice and notice
Quebec City
Jean Grégoire, University Students Association of Quebec
Expand fair use, education exemptions
Hélène Messier, Société québécoise de gestion collective des droits de reproduction (COPIBEC)
Balance, collective management, licenses, artists need to be paid.
Raymond Legault, Union des artistes
Expand private copying levy, moral rights, P2P
Alain Lauzon, Society for reproduction rights of authors, composers and publishers in Canada (SODRAC)
Expand personal use, no expansion to fair use, no new exceptions, limit P2P
Christian Bédard, Regroupement des artistes en arts visuels (RAAV)
Resale rights, exhibition royalties, protection for photographs 
Aline Côté, Association nationale des éditeurs de livres (ANEL)
Control over digital content/eBooks
Alexia Roussos, Association des producteurs de films et de télévision du Québec (APFTQ)
Notice-and-notice, technological neutrality, royalties
Diane Lamarre, Professional Music Publishers Association (PMPA)
Expand private copying levy, technological neutrality
Lyette Bouchard, Association québécoise de l'industrie du disque, du spectacle et de la vidéo (ADISQ)
Balance, technological neutrality, limit illegal file-sharing, opposed to radio exemptions
Jean Chabot, Association pour l'avancement des sciences et des techniques de la documentation
Fair use, library exceptions, clarity, flexibility
Martin Hudon, Conférence des recteurs et des principaux des universités du Québec (CREPUQ)
Exceptions for digital content, clarity