Nathaniel Erskine-Smith at the Industry, Science and Technology Committee

On February 24th, 2020. See this statement in context.

February 24th, 2020 / 10:50 a.m.

Liberal

Nathaniel Erskine-Smith Liberal Beaches—East York, ON

Thanks very much.

We have Professor Geist in the next panel, and because much of the work that we're doing at this committee focuses on copyright extension, I wanted to quote Mr. Geist, who said, “The additional 20 years of protection beyond the international standard found in the Berne Convention will be costly for Canadians with little discernible benefit.”

I'm curious. Why are we committed to extending the copyright term for 20 years? Is this something that we put on the table, or something that we accepted because of the totality of the agreement?

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