International Trade committee  I've been banging the table to get someone to let me write the Copyright Act for a long time.

International Trade committee  Right, so thank you for that. On the issue of enforcement—ensuring that rights holders have effective tools to ensure their rights are respected—I actually think the government in 2012 did a good job of that. We have, for example, an enabler provision that allows rights holders

International Trade committee  We often talk about user rights, which is, I think, the reference you're making, and the Supreme Court of Canada has often talked about creator rights on the one hand and user rights on the other. We've done a pretty good job through the courts and then through the legislation it

International Trade committee  Sure. What you're referring to is the system that was established in 2012, which actually had been in place in Canada for quite a number of years on an informal basis, that when there is an allegation of infringement, rights holders have the ability to send a notification to an I

International Trade committee  On these kinds of issues, on IP and e-commerce, Mexico hasn't been particularly aggressive when it comes to their own interests. They've tended to prioritize some other issues. It has tended to be the United States that prioritizes both the intellectual property chapter and the e

International Trade committee  No. There's no equivalent e-commerce chapter in the CETA, the Canada-EU trade agreement. Given that the TPP, at least for the moment, is either sidelined completely or likely to be renegotiated through TPP 11, NAFTA would represent really the first time that Canada had agreed to

International Trade committee  I should start by noting that while it will be new to NAFTA, it's unlikely to be new to Canada and the United States. I think the expectation is that the blueprint being used is the e-commerce chapter that was included in the trans-Pacific partnership, the TPP. We have a pretty

International Trade committee  Great. It's good to be back. Good afternoon. From speaking for the country to speaking for myself, I'm a law professor at the University of Ottawa, where I hold the Canada research chair on Internet and e-commerce law. As always, I appear in a personal capacity representing onl

Industry committee  I think this highlights the examples we had earlier about Canadian businesses that either face litigation in the United States or face the prospect of patent thickets or other mechanisms that restrict the ability to innovate or, even more, bring to market. It represents a signifi

Industry committee  I'll pick up on that and argue that in some ways that's a feature, not a bug.

Industry committee  One of the issues we have is the reality that the incentives and the culture in universities and colleges are different from the culture you have on the business side. That isn't something where we need to say that we're going to clear that out and find a way to ensure that we cr

Industry committee  Yes, absolutely.

Industry committee  What we're seeing is that this is happening on a global basis, and that the knowledge that comes out of the core publications is not where the commercialization takes place. In a sense, that's part of the problem here. We're mistaking research for asking, “How come you haven't co

Industry committee  I'm saying that we compete in a global marketplace. If we think we can compete globally by locking down our knowledge, we aren't going to win anything.

Industry committee  If I could have 30 seconds, I'll note that not every place can be a cluster. One of the reasons I tried to emphasize the issue of knowledge transfer is to recognize that the way we grow in communities can't always be through a cluster, and so by ensuring, for example, that the re