The outcome of this lawsuit may receive mixed reviews, but the good part is that it "removes both the threat of mandated payments to Access Copyright as well as the possibility of a copyright infringement lawsuit by the copyright collective." To be clear, authors and publishers syill retain rights to their works and can demand compensation. But "users have choice in how they obtain the necessary rights for the works they use." Michael Geist also comments that " The decision represents a major validation for University of Toronto professor Ariel Katz, whose 2015 Spectre article made the convincing case that "the spectre of a 'mandatory tariff' lacks any basis in law."
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