Why Canada Should Not Adopt Fair Use
A Joint Submission to the Copyright Consultations
October 23, 2009
This paper is jointly submitted by over fifty prominent Canadian organizations, who represent hundreds of thousands of artists, choreographers, composers, directors, educators, illustrators, journalists, makers, musicians, performers, photographers, playwrights, producers, publishers, song writers, videographers, and writers working in Canada. We submit this paper because we believe Canada should not adopt a new fair use provision.
Submission's Supporting Organizations
This submission was made in 2009 on behalf of the following organizations, listed in alphabetical order.* An updated list will be provided as more organizations add their support to this submission. Each organization may also provide additional submissions and supplementary information to expand on the analysis of the issues pertinent to its field of activity.
*2024 Update: Please note that some of these organizations may no longer be operating, have changed their names, or have amalgamated with other organizations.
- Access Copyright, The Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency
- l'Association québécoise de l'industrie du disque, du spectacle et de la vidéo (ADISQ)
- American Federation of Musicians (AFM)
- ARTISTI (Société de gestion de l'Union des Artistes)
- Association des journalistes indépendants du Québec
- Association des professionnels des arts de la scène du Québec (APASQ)
- Association of Canadian Publishers (ACP)
- Association of Canadian University Presses (ACUP)
- Book Publishers Association of Alberta (BPAA)
- Canadian Actors' Equity Association (CAEA)
- Canadian Artists' Representation (CARFAC)
- Canadian Artists Representation Copyright Collective (CARCC)
- Canadian Association of Photographers and Illustrators in Communications (CAPIC)
- Canadian Authors Association (CAA)
- Canadian Copyright Institute
- Canadian Educational Resources Council (CERC)
- Canadian Freelance Union (CFU)
- Canadian Music Centre (CMC)
- Canadian Photographers Coalition
- Canadian Publishers' Council (CPC)
- Canadian Private Copying Collective (CPCC)
- Canadian Society of Children's Authors, Illustrators and Performers (CANSCAIP)
- Crime Writers of Canada (CWC)
- Directors Guild of Canada (DGC)
- Federation of BC Writers
- Guild of Canadian Film Composers (GCFC)
- L'Union des artistes
- L'Union des écrivaines et écrivains québécois (UNEQ)
- La Societe Professionelle des auteurs et des compositeurs du Quebec (CPACQ)
- Le Centre de musique canadienne au Québec
- Magazines Canada
- Music Publishers Canada
- Neighbouring Rights Collective of Canada (NRCC)
- Ontario Book Publishers Organization (OBPO)
- Playwrights' Guild of Canada
- Professional Photographers of Canada
- Professional Writers Association of Canada (PWAC)
- Regroupement des artistes en arts visuels du Québec (RAAV)
- Saskatchewan Publishers Group
- Saskatchewan Writers Guild (SWG)
- Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN)
- Sociétv des Auteurs de Radio, Télévision et Cinéma (SARTEC)
- Société de développement des périodiques culturels québécois (SODEP)
- Société québécoise de gestion collective des droits de reproduction (Copibec)
- Society for Reproduction Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers in Canada (SODRAC)
- Société de gestion collective des droits des producteurs de phonogrammes et de vidéogrammes du Québec (SOPROQ)
- Songwriters Association of Canada (SAC)
- The Creators' Copyright Coalition
- The Writers' Union of Canada (TWUC)
- Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia
- Writers Guild of Canada
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