Pay your copying bill, or pay a much bigger bill

Statutory damages for copyright infringement in most other Copyright Board tariffs carry enough heft to actually protect the marketplace, writes John Degen of the Writers' Union of Canada.

Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly's department is jointly responsible for overseeing the review of the Copyright Act. The Writes' Union of Canada is calling on the government to increase the statutory damages to draw educators back to the negotiating table. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY JOHN DEGEN

July 11, 2018

In a recent op-ed in this paper, Glenn Rollans from the Association of Canadian Publishers called on government to ...

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