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Industry committee  I'm not sure that it's prudent for us to talk about specific examples, but I think I can come pretty close. I think what you typically have is a situation in which a non-sponsor takes a series of expressions—let's take images of winter Olympic sports—that align closely with the

June 4th, 2007Committee meeting

Bill Cooper

Industry committee  Yes. As John said earlier, our main asset is reputation. As a subset to that, we really take very seriously the objective of going through as many layers as possible before we would even consider a remedy such as this. To that end, everything we're doing right now is based on vo

June 4th, 2007Committee meeting

Bill Cooper

Industry committee  I'd just emphasize that. It's really about unauthorized commercial associations, and aboriginal artists or other non-profit organizations would fall well out of that. In that sense, they would be free to use the marks in artistic expression, etc., etc. That would also tie back in

June 4th, 2007Committee meeting

Bill Cooper

Industry committee  We treat electronic media under the broad category of media itself. It would be just another platform. So yes, I think in any approach we would take to the media at large, we would have an equal approach to electronic media.

June 4th, 2007Committee meeting

Bill Cooper

Industry committee  I want to emphasize that if and when Bill C-47 is passed, we will not be starting from scratch with the guidelines. I want to put you at ease there. There's been an enormous body of work done already on the guidelines—as much as we thought was reasonable and sensible, given how m

June 4th, 2007Committee meeting

Bill Cooper

Industry committee  Our jurisdiction is domestic only, but we work very closely with all the national Olympic committees and we do work closely with the USOC when it's relevant. In the instance that you cite, a person could travel into Canada with an infringing T-shirt, assuming they made it into Ca

June 4th, 2007Committee meeting

Bill Cooper

Industry committee  Yes. I would emphasize the immediacy of the damage done by ambush. Ambush is about an immediate impact and therefore the remedies required are immediate. I would also emphasize that if we are not in a position to be able to address the damage being caused during an ambush scenari

June 4th, 2007Committee meeting

Bill Cooper