Confident that CCC and other CMOs may provide necessary services to the user community through licensing mechanisms, it stresses that licensing should continue to be the rule for educational uses, also in respect of Digital Distance Education.
Fair use does exist in the digital world without any additional definition.
The report also insists on the importance of licensing. In the realm of licensing, the Report does not recommend any particular new provisions for the law, preferring instead to let the market, including CCC's Electronic Course Content Service continue to work out appropriate mechanisms. Additional legal back up may be considered only when the copyright owner cannot be located. A governmental body may grant the user a compulsory licence, e.g. by extending an existing licensing scheme, cf. Canadian Copyright Act , Art 70, according to which the Copyright Board may grant a licence to copy a work if the rightsholder cannot be located.