Access Copyright, one of the country’s largest collectives representing 13,000 authors, said it will lay off staff and cut budgets due to the loss of millions in royalties under an Act of Parliament.
The collective announced July 13 that these actions are a direct result of the millions of dollars in royalties being lost as a consequence of the Copyright Act, according to Blacklock’s Reporter.
Cabinet has not yet adopted a recommendation from 2019 from the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage that it restrain free photocopying currently permitted under the Copyright Act.
“Access Copyright’s board of directors has made the difficult decision to initiate a significant downsizing and restructuring of the organization due to the federal government’s decade-long inaction in fixing Canada’s publishing marketplace,” Access Copyright said in a statement….