The Budget   that this is in there. I had the privilege to sponsor Bill C-294, which is an act to amend the Copyright Act for interoperability. There are many fantastic short-line manufacturers in Saskatchewan, and quite frankly all across this country, that make great agricultural products. They also make products

Finance committee   bills before Parliament right now. They cover the role that copyright plays in gaining access to what may be protected by copyright, such as vehicle software. This is one of the major aspects that will help ensure that consumers can have their vehicle repaired. The changes

Bill C-244 An Act to amend the Copyright Act (diagnosis, maintenance and repair)

R.S., c. C-42 Copyright Act 1 (1) Paragraph (a) of the definition circumvent in section 41 of the Copyright Act is replaced by the following: (a) in respect of a technological protection measure within the meaning of paragraph (a) of the definition technological protection

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   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  You're probably referring to products that are purely generated by AI. In the brief we recently submitted to the departments of Industry and Canadian Heritage concerning the interaction between copyright and generative AI, we object to the idea of granting copyright to products

Industry committee  In the copyright laws, a few decades ago, when Napster happened, there was a decision made that they would give a certain level of copyright. There are different levels of copyright. This is called the moral right, and it allows musicians to defend music. When they have music

Industry committee  Yes. Ultimately, we are copyright stakeholders, as we have said many times today. The Copyright Act has a section on this. It is an important opportunity to review and make sure that we are up to international norms, but it is by no means a silver bullet to this problem. Like

Industry committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. My first intervention is the challenge of what we do next, because what I think you have demonstrated today is that it's like the argument that we're going to consult you on Bill C-27, and we will fix it sometime on copyright, and we will fix it somehow

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   to allow for AI not to respect copyright laws, then it will have the highest impact on us. That's something you could fix today in Bill C-27 by just saying that AI has to pay for the use of copyright material.

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?