Red Hat founder speaks against Canada's copyright reform

need for additional copyright protections due to advances (at the time) in information technology. The treaty's champions the need for including anti-circumvention laws for TPMs.

Other panelists, like Graham Henderson, president of the CRIA agreed: "Intellectual property rights in general are very poorly understood in Canada. We don't talk, think or write a lot about it. It's created a missing link in Canada's innovation agenda."

But industry executives like Young said that Canadian legislations need to stop being pressured by content producers and international bodies and instead focus on doing what's right for innovation on its own soil.

"I would step back and look at this issue from a first principles point-of-view," he said. "What are we trying to achieve? We are trying to throw content pirates in jail, so we should be looking at homegrown Canadians solutions to do this."