Our Copyright Act, as currently worded, does apply to the digital context. When my colleague Albert reviewed economic rights, he mentioned on several occasions that economic rights that are provided for under the Copyright Act do apply to the digital context.
Clearly, several cultural industries feel that additional legislative efforts must be made in order to allow them to profit fully from their creations. In this context, the film industry, the sound recording industry and the software industry—to name but a few—are demanding amendments to the Copyright Act. Many associations also think that it would be appropriate to amend the Copyright Act so that they can work in a more secure and clear context in terms of their business model or in order to benefit fully from their creations.
Others are also demanding that the legislation be updated. Service providers, for example, now that works are circulating on their networks, are wondering what their role is and their responsibility in this context and they would like these issues to be examined.
The education, research and library sector would also like us to address the increasingly frequent usage of contemporary digital works and they would like to see amendments to the act in order to facilitate their work.