Government-backed study finds piracy fight a low priority for Canadian rights holders

The Circum study offers further evidence that for many creators, obscurity remains a far bigger threat than piracy. The study suggests that creators are ready to embrace the digital marketplace and would prefer to focus their energies on developing convenient, well-priced, legal services.

The message for the two ministers responsible for copyright—Canadian Heritage minister Mélanie Joly and Innovation, Science and Economic Development minister Navdeep Bains—is that with so much choice and competition, success is unlikely to come from yet another package of anti-piracy legal reforms, writes Michael Geist. The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

Opinion

BY MICHAEL GEIST

August 8, 2016

OTTAWA—The Canadian government plans to review the state of copyright law next year, but a recent government-commissioned study indicates that fighting piracy is a low priority for rights holders, who prefer to focus their efforts on generating revenues from legitimate websites and services. Pira...

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