Access Copyright, one of the country’s largest collectives representing 13,000 authors, yesterday said it will lay off staff and cut budgets due to the loss of millions in royalties under an Act of Parliament. Cabinet has yet to adopt a 2019 recommendation of the Commons heritage committee that it curb free photocopying under the Copyright Act.

“Access Copyright’s board of directors has made the difficult decision to initiate a significant downsizing and restructuring of the organization due to the federal government’s decade-long inaction in fixing Canada’s publishing marketplace,” the group said in a statement. It did not respond to questions. The scope of job cuts was not detailed.