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 |