Copyright Act  moved for leave to introduce Bill C-374, an act to amend the Copyright Act (Crown copyright). Madam Speaker, I would like to thank my seconder of the bill. This is important for Canada, in particular for businesses, researchers and educators. The act to amend the Copyright Act

Information & Ethics committee  , a company in Victoria, British Columbia. The current contract runs until the summer of 2024. The Copyright Board of Canada is also one of the organizations—

Information & Ethics committee   dollars' worth of purchases related to surveillance. It's a huge amount of money. Just recently, I got an updated contract from Teel Technologies for mobile forensic devices—the Copyright Board was a new agency that came up as a receiver of these things—for $11 million

Industry committee   quickly. The copyright question is a very hot topic, and the government has had consultation on this. From a policy perspective, I think there are two sides to consider. I think there's the AI training and the data input. How do we allow for greater assurance that we have great data

Industry committee   a complete publicly disclosed register of all data, or is it to have a summary with regard to copyright holders? That's for Ms. Desrochers or Ms. Hénault.

Industry committee  I'm sorry. I don't have the text in front of me online, but I'm going to give you exactly the clause we think should be extracted from the EU act on that. With respect to copyright, I think it's an obligation for all kinds of generative models, whether they are high-risk

Industry committee   a piece of art, and it's just created by a machine, that's not copyrightable. The impact of this on jobs, individuals, and society is significant.

Industry committee  I'll move to Marie-Julie Desrochers. Welcome. My question concerns Bill C-27. Is it not important that we finish off this bill and put it in place? Twenty years have passed. Wouldn't you agree that the reviews of this bill pertaining to AI—even the copyright side, which

Industry committee  Thank you. Ms. Hénault, I know you wanted to comment on the previous point. Do you want to quickly say something regarding copyright?

Industry committee   of the way copyright legislation handles protected training data. I think that, if they can do it in the European Union, we can do it in Canada.

Industry committee   that there currently is an absence with regard to authorizations from rights holders to use data for mining, for exploitation. The output cannot be protected by copyright. At least there is a consensus that these outputs are problematic because we have no knowledge of which data were used

Industry committee  I don't want to interrupt you, but I'm sure I'm very close to running out of time. To summarize what you're saying, then, you're saying that you want copyright protection ahead of an AI model being generated or trained. Is that what you want? Help me understand how.... If an AI

Industry committee  That's not what I said. I'm glad you asked me the question, and I thank you for it. Since publishing is a global industry, we have frequent discussions with international partners. However, our foreign counterparts are at times surprised to see that Canadian copyright

Industry committee   still basically be walking around there. It's similar to what you said, Mr. Rogers, with regard to the artist. I thought that was really interesting, because you're right. I was here for the copyright review. Part of it was that they could literally hear themselves, because they're

Industry committee   copyright, photographs, literary works and so on. That would obviously mean less material to train the AI models, and our works would therefore be included in AI results to a lesser degree. Consequently, if we overprotect our works, wouldn't that be a factor causing Quebec culture