Jay Kerr-Wilson is quoted on iPolitics about the existing difficulties of acting on Copyright laws from an international standpoint
iPolitics
November 16, 2011
Jay Kerr-Wilson is a partner with Fasken Martineau who practises primarily in the areas of communications and public law, with a particular emphasis on copyright matters.
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Continued uncertainty behind Canada's copyright laws has placed the country in the unenviable position of being a laggard in the digital space, a position from which it may be difficult to recover, media executives say.
Any further amendments to copyright legislation would likely not take any cues from the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Copyright Treaty, an international copyright legislation that was adopted in 1996 and instead be treated multilaterally as a trade issue, said Jay Kerr-Wilson, a partner with Fasken Martineau.