Thank you, Madam Chair.
Professor Geist, who I agree is well recognized for his work on copyright law, expressed concerns about this very area and said, of clause 24:
I must say I find it astonishing that we would effectively say that certain parties don't have rights of quotation, so you have to set it aside for the purposes of negotiation. This is a must-have within international copyright law, yet it's been excluded. I should note that this is something you do not find in the Australian legislation. That's a made-in-Canada violation of international law.
For example, clause 24, which excludes copyright limitations and exceptions from the bargaining process, may violate article 10(1) of the Berne Convention, which has a mandatory right of quotation that expressly includes newspaper articles.
I think putting this in the bill will clarify any attempt by anyone to do something that was unintended.