OTTAWA—The recently announced Balanced Copyright for Canada online advocacy group formed because rights holder groups felt they needed to counter the user lobby’s “louder voice” online, Stephen Ellis, a board member of the group, told The Wire Report in an interview.

“The pro-copyright forces needed, for the lack of a better term, a soap box,” Ellis said.

Ellis, president and CEO of Ellis Entertainment Corp. in Toronto and a member of the coalition’s 14-member advisory board, said members of the group hope to facilitate discussion among creators and rights holders and build consensus on key copyright reform policies.

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