Copyright and tuition hikes: Canadian civic engagement and cultural production

Now that Bill C-11, Canada’s Act to Amend the Copyright Act, has undergone its second reading in the House of Commons, it will be subject to two more votes before it likely heads to the Senate and finally to royal assent. Given our current majority Conservative government, this long-impending introduction of a “Canadian DMCA” will finally criminalize the circumvention of digital locks on cultural works, putting us in accord with U.S. legislation that was passed over a decade ago.