A: We are completely swamped and information-overloaded already with all the competition and investment so reducing the copyright terms to 10 years would be a good way to cool off all this competition and investment a bit so we can get on with really living our lives instead of by media procuration.

A: We are completely swamped and information-overloaded already with all the competition and investment so reducing the copyright terms to 10 years would be a good way to cool off all this competition and investment a bit so we can get on with really living our lives instead of by media procuration.

Anti-circumvention clauses can undermine competition by taking intellectual property rights away from content creators and giving them to the media format creators who design and introduce format-wide technological protection measures (aka TPM or DRM). This creates a conflict of interest when media format creators (e.g. Sony, which was one of the companies behind the blu-ray disc association) also produce content. They are in competition with other creators but would also be granted the ability to push lawsuits against competitors' customers. As such, anti-circumvention enforcement undermines intellectual property rights and would be constitutionally questionable.

Limitations to the benefit of all society aside, intellectual property rights should remain in the hands of content creators and those who enter into contracts regarding such with those creators.

I think the best way to promote competition and investment will be to ensure net neutrality where large companies do not receive preferential treatment.

Canada needs to be a bold and forge its own path without backing down because it will upset American lobby groups.

I don't know, frankly a lot of the changes that need to happen may make corporations angry with the country, however will most likely make the content creators themselves much happier. This may lead to corporations threatening to leave Canada, and whatnot. I do believe that if the laws are created to treat the creators and the customers fairly we will see a huge increase in competition and investment. Currently most content is distributed by a small number of huge companies which do not compete with each other (see CD price fixing in the 90's), new laws will create new methods of distribution, new companies, new content creators and actual competition. Canada is lacking competition in so many different fields (cell phones, internet providers, etc. -yes not really copyright area) that one needs to make changes which will empower creators and customers. This will create competition and investment, the country will come alive with new creations.