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Canadian Heritage committee  As much of the debate in Canada has been on the Online News Act, I thought I should take two examples of such tech tactics from equivalent discussions in the EU in the context of the copyright reform directives from a few years back. These relate, first of all, to the use of front groups and alliances. One example under the copyright debates deals with one of the most vocal stakeholder coalitions in Brussels, called C4C, the Coalition for Creativity, which represented all from public libraries to digital rights organizations.

Canadian Heritage committee  What I can say in terms of payments to publishers in Europe is that it was addressed through copyright reform that created an ancillary right, which was essentially about creating a market. In a sense, if you give a property right to publishers over how content is used online, then you give them a position to negotiate.

Industry committee  If you're going to, for instance, train one of these very large models, one that has access to data, there are currently certain issues around the copyright law that prevent companies from using text or images, whereas, in the U.S. or Japan, they can freely use them. This has been pointed out in the past. This prevents anyone who's training these types of models from training them or operating them from Canada.

Affordable Housing and Groceries Act  Nevertheless, I urge the government to give us the opportunity to do what we so desperately want, which is to thoroughly update the Competition Act over the coming year, rather slip it into a mammoth bill. While we are at it, can we overhaul the Copyright Act, too, as well as the many others that fall within the Minister of Industry's purview?

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  This visionary project harnesses technology to operationalize the Marrakesh Treaty, which is a pact that loosens copyright restraints for visually impaired and print-disabled people. The goal is really simple, yet very profound. It is to ensure seamless access to learning materials through technology. If we can succeed in one of the world's least resourced countries, there is no doubt in my mind that this can be replicated globally.

Committees of the House  Let me quote another witness, François Le Moine, a lawyer specializing in art and heritage law and president of the Association littéraire et artistique internationale Canada. Mr. Le Moine is an authority on copyright and all things relating to art and heritage buildings. He said, “Under the rules of this competition, the government simply did not have the necessary leeway to award the contract to a team that had not been selected.

Canadian Heritage committee  What we see in the world is that there have been two general approaches to this problem. You have seen Europe pursue an approach based on giving news publishers a form of copyright for their content when it gets shared. The outcome in Germany that you are referencing would be under that kind of copyright royalty framework. The other model was—

Industry committee  What are the weak points of Bill C‑27 when it comes to protecting artificial intelligence? We know that Canada's Copyright Act is now out of date and that it generally provides little copyright protection. Will Bill C‑27 push us down into an even deeper hole?

Industry committee  The draft law that's in front of you doesn't deal with intellectual property rights at all, and that's unlike the EU legislation, which has at least a provision requiring transparency in data that's disclosed. It's also unlike the draft U.K. bill that requires compliance with copyright laws, and it is also not consistent with draft French legislation, which would also require compliance with copyright laws for training models. As you know, there is a consultation ongoing with ISED and the Department of Canadian Heritage that asks a number of questions, including whether the act needs to be changed and, in particular, whether there should be a new text and data mining exemption.

Canadian Heritage committee  That was a bargaining framework, which is what Canada has pursued here, in part because it provides the ability to have these commercial agreements and to not get involved in setting a copyright royalty rate for this kind of activity on platforms.

Government Operations committee  I believe that one of the central considerations is intellectual property rights. Intellectual property rights can be, for example, patents, copyrights or trade secrets. That's important because the businesses enter into an agreement or a partnership with the federal government, and there is an expectation there that this information will be protected.

Canadian Heritage committee  This includes the oft-repeated claims that regulations will destroy innovation or end the free and open Internet. In each case, whether it was on new privacy laws, the EU copyright directive or Australia's news bargaining code, the Internet never broke. Facebook often takes it a step further by suggesting it will have to charge for services or kill thousands of small businesses and millions of jobs.

Industry committee  As I understand it, it's not in this bill. Second, I think it's important to recognize that some of the ways in which copyrighted work is input as data into the AI systems are very clearly related to the value of the copyright. If you ask it to write a song in the style of The Tragically Hip, it will. That's the style of The Tragically Hip, and that seems related to The Tragically Hip copyright.