Copyright term extension may have been buried in an annex in #Budget2022, but @cafreeland has been grappling with the issue since her election in 2015 from the TPP to USMCA to recent trade battles over electric vehicles. A thread… 1/7
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In 2015, the Liberal government inherited the Trans Pacific Partnership, which included term extension. @cafreeland was International Trade Minister. Canada consulted and delayed deciding whether to move ahead with the agreement. 2/7 michaelgeist.ca/2016/06/democr…
In 2017, Donald Trump pulled the U.S. out of the TPP, which opened the door for Canada to suspend some provisions. At the top of the list? Copyright term extension, which was quickly out as a requirement to ratify the newly named CPTPP. 3/7 michaelgeist.ca/2017/11/rethin…
By 2019, @cafreeland was Foreign Affairs Minister negotiating the USMCA. Once again, the US insisted on copyright term extension. Canada didn’t want it, but caved to the pressure, buying a 30 month transition period to try to address the harms. 4/7 openparliament.ca/committees/ind…
How to address copyright term extension harm? Government’s 2019 copyright review examined the issue and recommended a solution: a registration requirement would give rights holders that want it the extension + keep remaining works in the public domain. 5/7 michaelgeist.ca/2019/06/the-au…
Just last December, copyright term extension was back. As Finance Minister @cafreeland wrote to 8 U.S. Senators threatening to delay implementation if the U.S. went ahead with a tax credit for electric vehicles. 6/7 michaelgeist.ca/2022/04/freela…
Which brings us to #Budget2022: a terrible policy making approach (@JustinTrudeau was elected in 2015 in part on a commitment not to use budget to sneak through legislation this way) and terrible policy that experts have termed a “tax on consumers”. 7/7 michaelgeist.ca/2022/04/freela…
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