Canada's Consultation On Copyright And Generative AI: A Look At The Submissions Received

In October of 2023, the Government of Canada announced a public consultation on "Copyright in the Age of Generative Artificial Intelligence."¹ The submissions received in the context of this consultation were recently made public.²

Below, we highlight trends observed across the submissions and share a few notable solutions put forth by various stakeholders. To help us "mine" through this volume of text and data, we enlisted the help of a generative AI assistant. We asked the assistant to summarize each one of the 98 submissions and identify whether each submission 1) was favourable to amending the Copyright Act, 2) was favourable to AI model training as a form of fair use and 3) contained any creative suggestions for how to treat generative AI from a legal perspective. We used the AI assistant's responses in drawing conclusions about the nature and scope of the submissions.