Bill C-32 (The Copyright Modernization Act) died with the prorogation of the 40th Canadian Parliament on March 26, 2011. My own views on the bill were (and remain) largely irrelevant, but I will be discussing what would have changed had the bill been passed into law (and what the lack of passage means for practitioners) at the Law Society of Upper Canada’s 2011 Entertainment & Media Law Symposium, along with my co-panelists Erin Finlay and Giuseppina D’Agostino. In light of the death of Bill C-32, this, final, commentary round-up offers for consideration some selected materials which have made their way into my RSS feeds over the last few weeks:
- Giuseppina D’Agostino: There is no two without three – Bill C-32 is dead
- Leslie Chong: Techies, Artists and Collective Societies Weigh in on Bill C-32
- Ivy Tsui: Musicians and Radio Broadcasters Speak Up on Bill C-32
- Daryl-lynn Carson, writing in the National Post, canvassed a number of lawyers for their thoughts on the bill: Copyright reform close but no cigar