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• How do Canada's copyright laws affect you? How should existing laws be modernized? i am both a consumer and a digital artist and aspiring software developer. unfair copyrights affect any internet user. it is hard to not come across copyrighted material. i fear i will be penalized for viewing copyrighted material which i would have not purchased in the first place. we have to stop spending resources enforcing unfair copyright laws and spend more promoting creative work. in today's world artistic content is created and outdated exceptionally fast. as the green party has suggested, a 12 year copyright term would be reasonable. anything longer is just corporate greed; people trying to benefit financially on others work. an artist will have financial success with their work in the first few years. thereafter it becomes a classic and will not make much more money unless it is rehashed or recreated in part.

  the laws must prepare for a complete internet transformation. expect the internet to overtake telephony, television, video on demand services, radio, satellite radio, movie rentals and music shops. all of those services will be completely replaced with online equivalents soon enough. digital rights management (drm) and intrusion of privacy is not the answer. if we must resort to that, we are preventing the internet from becoming the preferred medium in canada and we will fall behind. creativity existed long before any copyright laws. art can't die.

• Based on Canadian values and interests, how should copyright changes be made in order to withstand the test of time?

  i think flexibility is important. we should stop using permanent ink and move to a digital, reversible and flexible format. we shouldn't have to guess what tomorrow will bring, but fit the laws according to the current situation and make it possible to adjust them at any moment. twenty years ago the internet was a small experiment, now we are scrambling to repair our laws because we thought the ones from decades ago we be relevant forever- without mention of the internet.

• What sorts of copyright changes do you believe would best foster innovation and creativity in Canada? our current incredibly long copyright limit does nothing for the typical artist. it is in place to financially benefit copyright owners who 'buy rights' to other people's work as if creativity were a commodity. countries around the world have very similar copyright laws. the whole world must start thinking independently so we can observe different laws and see how they affect each society.

  in school, there is too much emphasis on creative writing and not enough on interactive, video and audio production. younger people choose to speak, listen and watch rather than write. with modern technology it is easier to do such. it explains the popularity of video sharing sites like youtube among the young. if we promoted this in schools instead of prohibit it, i think more would grow up with an interest in film making and producing. it is sad to see public schools use binders and pencils only to send kids home to autocorrecting word processors and group video chat.

• What sorts of copyright changes do you believe would best foster competition and investment in Canada?

  making sure artists with contracts get their fair share and that none of their work is redistributed for financial gain without their permission. increase funding for arts especially for students and promote modern artistic media, mainly online.

• What kinds of changes would best position Canada as a leader in the global, digital economy? we need to end the emphasis of old media such as radio, television and print and transition to online format.

  funding and promoting the internet so that every canadian adopts its use. schools must stop punishing students for using online resources and mobile devices. there is this paradox in canadian schools where the students are far more familiar and informed than the teachers in terms of the greatest learning and creative tool ever crafted (the internet).

  just as governments funds national security, roads and water services, it must increase funds for internet access and arts. if we want others to be inspired and have people around the world see canadian content, we must make the internet infrastructure ready for the future. our internet service providers have no interest in promoting creativity and will do the bare minimum when possible. canada is almost dead last in ranking of price/speed and availability of the internet. we must fund fiber optic and satellite services because it is what allows people to share content and be creative in today's world.

good luck