Year in ReviewAdvocacy
Advocacy
“We affirm the importance of human ingenuity and creativity to society, and stress the need for technology companies to comply with the Copyright Act as they develop and refine AI systems.”
Access Copyright continued its collaborative approach to advocacy in 2025, working in partnership with a bilingual coalition of writing and publishing organizations and the Coalition for Diversity of Cultural Expressions.
Our efforts focused on the importance of building a fair and equitable framework to regulate the continued development of AI in Canada through adoption of the ART principles: when content is used for AI training, it should be authorized by the rightsholder; rightsholders should have the opportunity to be remunerated for the use of their content; and developers should be transparent about the content they are using for training.
This message was shared by our legal counsel, Erin Finlay, who testified on behalf of Access Copyright as part of the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage’s study on the Effects of Technological Advances in Artificial Intelligence on the Creative Industries, and in our submission to Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada’s "AI Sprint,” which will inform the federal government’s development of a new Pan-Canadian AI strategy.
In all of our AI advocacy work, we affirm the importance of human ingenuity and creativity to society, and stress the need for technology companies to comply with the Copyright Act as they develop and refine AI systems.
Additionally, Access Copyright continues to work with partners to advance its long-standing priorities related to fixing Canada’s copyright regime, including that the government amend the Copyright Act to clarify fair dealing for education and the role of the Copyright Board of Canada.
Our efforts focused on the importance of building a fair and equitable framework to regulate the continued development of AI in Canada through adoption of the ART principles: when content is used for AI training, it should be authorized by the rightsholder; rightsholders should have the opportunity to be remunerated for the use of their content; and developers should be transparent about the content they are using for training.
This message was shared by our legal counsel, Erin Finlay, who testified on behalf of Access Copyright as part of the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage’s study on the Effects of Technological Advances in Artificial Intelligence on the Creative Industries, and in our submission to Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada’s "AI Sprint,” which will inform the federal government’s development of a new Pan-Canadian AI strategy.
In all of our AI advocacy work, we affirm the importance of human ingenuity and creativity to society, and stress the need for technology companies to comply with the Copyright Act as they develop and refine AI systems.
Additionally, Access Copyright continues to work with partners to advance its long-standing priorities related to fixing Canada’s copyright regime, including that the government amend the Copyright Act to clarify fair dealing for education and the role of the Copyright Board of Canada.