Chapter 13: Maintaining a Single System Copyright
In this chapter, the Lincoln Report discusses the concept of copyright and the legal aspects of not adhering to the rules associated with copyright policies. Copyright is the legal right granted to an author, composer, playwright, publisher, or distributor to exclusive publication, production, sale, or distribution of a literary, musical, dramatic, or artistic work. It cannot be tampered with by any means without the consent of the individual holding possession of the copyright. To respond to this, the federal government created the Copyright Act to respond to the property rights of the copyright holder.
Copyright policies are extremely stringent; they are not easily made flexible. In terms of broadcasting, Canadian broadcasters merely acquire the rights from the originators/creators to use the programming. In doing so, the broadcaster pays royalties/monetary payments in order to satisfy the conditioned arrangements. However, since the adoption and widespread use of satellite signals, the broadcasters have merely begun to retransmit frequencies and not provide monetary benefit to any of the creators/originators. It has become a significant issue for the creators because their work is not running free unlicensed. Once the copyright law had amended retransmission rights into the Copyright Act, the creators have been served pretty well. In doing so, compulsory licenses were created, reducing the presence of the copyright holder and making sure royalties were still paid to them.
The major concern has now come from internet retransmission. The evolution in technologies have challenged the very notion of copyright and has completely caused the Copyright Act to backfire. The internet has restructured the face of creative innovation and copyright policy completely, it has digitized creative content completely. The result has been that compressed files (music, books, films, TV shows, etc..) are becoming easy to retransmit and easy to download and share among the internet community.
The Committee recommends that the Copyright Act be revised in its entirety in order to review the nature of digitization and its impact.
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