Industry committee  Thank you, everybody. My name is Sylvia McNicoll, as you know. I'm here to represent the Canadian Society of Children's Authors, Illustrators and Performers, better known as CANSCAIP, because writers and illustrators for children are probably the most affected by the fair dealin

Industry committee  Ann said “reasonable limit”. I would like to know what that reasonable limit is. I feel that colleges or K to 12 have assumed it is 10%, whereas we feel it's the nature of the copying. If you copy one page of my story, that's fine. But if you copy a whole poem on one page, you'

Industry committee  I find that it doesn't matter what the copyright says; the schools ignore it anyway.

Industry committee  Unfortunately, because of the Internet and the feeling that content is free, students are extremely resistant to the idea that intellectual property isn't a free-for-all, so start with that. Can we educate the teachers better, or the students better? You're going to have to jump

Industry committee  We almost need a campaign for kids to understand that content is curated and created.

Industry committee  Could I just comment? Nobody ever consults the writer, though. I don't feel that they consult the content provider.

Industry committee  As I keep saying, everyone jumped to thinking it was a 10% grab, and that's really why the college has opted out because that 10% is now free....

Industry committee  No, it's perceived by the educational institutes and if we narrow that down, I would suggest we return to the Berne Convention. I don't know, but I think they had three measures. One measure was, does it interfere with the creator's ability to be compensated? For example, my exam

Industry committee  Yes, it's only perceived, and it's in every one of their....

Industry committee  Exactly, sir. We're determining it in the court of law.

Industry committee  I feel they have created guidelines and everyone is happy with it but we're not. You know they have decided that a certain percentage is open to them because of fair dealings.

Industry committee  When I said one poem, again, let's go back to the nature of the photocopying. If you have a whole anthology of different poets and you take one poem and consistently photocopy it or download it or whatever you want or post, at worst, and use it consistently every year, obviously

Industry committee  I'm sorry. I do not, specifically to the indigenous authors, but I would say that it probably at this point affects them more, only because we have the year of reconciliation and the schools are looking for more curriculum material. Our indigenous authors are going to schools mor

Industry committee  I've always said you have to cobble together a living. I have never said that you can write one poem and live off of it or one picture book or one novel, but now I say you really can't make a living. I have tried every different way. I've written about shot peening. I turn nothin

Industry committee  Yes, and in my case, it's 90%.