with Canadian libraries, patrons, and others Internet Archive Canada for over fifteen years in support of the mission to provide Universal Access to all Knowlge. Over that time frame we’ve digitiz more than 650,000 books, micro-reproductions, and a variety of other archival materials. Today, Internet Archive Canada has a substantial collection focus on Canadian cultural heritage and historical government publications. Along with our partners, we’ve made a significant investment in and contribution to the accessibility of Canadian digital heritage.
For example, you may have heard
of Canada’s Group of Seven. The groundbreaking phone number list Canadian landscape painters that have also been known . The as the Algonquin School. The Group and relat artists were active in the early part of the twentieth century, meaning that much of their work is already in the public domain. As a result. The substantial efforts have been made by a number of institutions to digitize and make their work more broadly available. And there are a fair number of these kinds of materials in Internet Archive’s collections, such as works by and about Emily Carr and Lawren Harris. Many of these are either in the public domain or were expect to enter
it soon. For example, as Lawren
Harris di in 1970, under Canada’s In Memory of Python current life+50 copyright term his works should be entering the public domain now. But under the new proposal to extend that term to life+70 years, we’d be another twenty years away.
In order to mitigate the harm
caus by this extension, the Government of Canada is considering allowing some use of older works that will be kept from the public domain—especially by libraries like us. And while the exact parameters are at this point trust review uncertain, we applaud the Government’s careful attention to this matter and inquiry to Internet Archive Canada stakeholders like us.