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Copyright User Rights and Access to Justice
Pascale Chapdelaine*
What are copyright user rights? And what insights may an access to justice perspective bring to our
understanding of their nature, place in current law and policy, and beyond? These were the main themes
of the Symposium hosted by the Faculty of Law at the University of Windsor on May 18 and 19, 2017.1
The Symposium gathered faculty, post-doctoral and doctoral students, and members of the broader
academic and legal community from around the world.
Copyright user rights have gained increased attention in the last decades in copyright law literature
worldwide.2 In Canada, there has been a greater focus on the rights of users of copyright works since the
2004 judgement CCH Canadian Ltd. v Law Society of Upper Canada, [CCH],3 where the Supreme Court
held that exceptions to copyright infringement were not mere loopholes in the Copyright Act,4 they were
user rights.5
Associate Professor, Faculty of Law at the University of Windsor.
1 University of Windsor Faculty of Law, Copyright User Rights and Access to Justice Symposium (18-19 May 2017)
conference agenda and abstract, online: <http://www.uwindsor.ca/law/754/conference-copyright-user-rights>.
2 See e.g. L Ray Patterson & Stanley W Lindberg, The Nature of Copyright: A Law of Users'Rights (Athens, GA:
University of Georgia Press, 1991); Joseph P Liu, Copyright Law's Theory of the Consumer (2003) 44 Boston College
L Rev 397; Julie E Cohen, The Place of the User in Copyright Law (2005) 74 Fordham L Rev 347; Robert Bun-ell &
Allison Coleman, Copyright Exceptions: The Digital Impact (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2005);
Joseph P. Liu, 'Enabling Copyright Consumers' (2007) 22 BTLJ 1099; P Bernt Hugenholtz, & Ruth L Okediji,
Conceiving an International Instrument on Limitations and Exceptions to Copyright (6 May 2008)), online: Open
Society Foundation <http:// www.opensocietyfoundations.org/ reports/ conceiving- international- instrument-
limitations- and- exceptions- copyright>; Niva Elkin-Koren The New Frontiers of User Rights (2016) 32 Am U Int'l L
Rev 1; Niva Elkin-Koren Copyright in a Digital Ecosystem, a User Rights Approach in RL Okediji, ed, Copyright
Law in an Age of Limitations and Exceptions (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017) 132.
3 2004 SCC 13 [CCH].
4 RSC, 1985, c C-42.admin
5 CCH, ibid at para 48. See e.g. Daniel Gervais, Canadian Copyright Law Post-CCH (2004) 18 IPJ 131; Myra J Tawfik,
International Copyright Law and Fair Dealing as a User Right (April-June 2005) UNESCO Copyright Bulletin, online:
<http://portal.unesco.org/culture/en/ev.phpURLID=27422&URL-DO=DO-TOPIC&-URL-SECTION=201.htmnl>;
Myra J Tawfik, International Copyright Law: W[h]ither User Rights? in Michael Geist, ed, In the Public Interest: The
Future of Canadian Copyright Law (Toronto: Irwin Law, 2005) 66; Abraham Drassinower Taking User Rights
Seriously, in Geist, ibid 462 ; Theresa Scassa, Users' Rights in the Balance: Recent Developments in Copyright law at
the Supreme Court of Canada (2005) 22 CIPR 133; Carys J Craig, The Changing Face of Fair Dealing in Canadian
Copyright Law: A Proposal for Legislative Reform, in Geist, Public Interest, supra note 6, 437; Giuseppina
D'Agostino, Healing Fair Dealing? A Comparative Copyright Analysis of Canadian Fair Dealing to UK Fair Dealing
and US Fair Use (2008) 53 McGill LJ 309 at 357; Carys Craig, Copyright, Communication and Culture, Towards a
Relational Theory of Copyright Law (Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2011) at 155-202, in particular at 168, 170-174,
179; Ariel Katz, Fair Use 2.0: The Rebirth of Fair Dealing in Canada in Michael Geist, ed, The Copyright Pentalogy,
How the Supreme Court of Canada Shook the Foundations of Canadian Copyright Law (Ottawa: University of Ottawa
Press, 2013) at 93; David Vaver, Copyright Defenses as User Rights (2013) 60:4 J Copyright Soc'y USA 661. Pascale
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