How do we bring users, who, increasingly, are from outside Canada, to the negotiating table, if the right we're defending isn't clear and has been weakened by a plethora of exceptions in terms of users' rights? How can we think that authors alone can negotiate the conditions of use for their works? This situation creates an imbalance that is detrimental to the cultural economy, and makes the system a matter of law, instead of providing a free, level playing field for negotiations.
At the end of its study, your committee should ideally provide Parliament with proposed amendments to the act that take into account the solutions presented today.
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