Industry committee  I'm trying to imagine that situation. No, I think that really, fair dealing should stand on its own. I don't think TPMs should stand in the way of fair dealing.

Industry committee  You know, if it's something that's allowable in the act, a TPM should not prevent it from happening.

Industry committee  I think it should be automatic.

Industry committee  Yes. That's pretty well an internationally accepted principle. I don't have a problem with that one at all.

Industry committee  The history of copyright, if you look at it, is a long one. It started out as a very short time period, then it has crept up. Archivists certainly believe that the period of protection, as it stands now, should not be extended. People's work needs to be properly recompensed. Ar

Industry committee  I don't think it's unfair. That's a personal opinion. I can't speak for all archivists about that. I think that with creative commons and the ability to waive your copyright, it's perfectly legitimate. If you want to make things openly accessible, it's very easy now to do so.

Industry committee  It's absolutely open and free.

Industry committee  We have crown corporations, and I think there are some issues around crown corporations that need to be addressed. I think it's a little more complicated here. The British model is a little bit different from completely open. That's why I think we need a proper sit-down and inve

Industry committee  There are different provisions. It's a little more nuanced than absolutely open copyright for everything. I think that nuance is more suitable for our environment.

Industry committee  The Copyright Board deals with published materials. Since archival materials for the most part are unpublished materials, our materials are not covered by the Copyright Board, so we don't have a lot to say about the Copyright Board. I know that the process has been criticized fo

Industry committee  The anti-circumvention rules came in with the 2012 amendments to the act, and at the time there were many requests to make exceptions for the anti-circumvention laws. In fact, there were very few exceptions that are in the law. For sure, I remember testifying to a committee exa

Industry committee  Yes. If there is an allowable act in the Copyright Act, we would ask that we be allowed to do circumvention in order to perform it.

Industry committee  That's one of the issues. In archives, we certainly increasingly want to make materials available digitally. We have materials. We have a lot of these materials in the archives. People come to our reading rooms, but where people want to access archival materials now is on the Int

Industry committee  We have to get permissions. In fact, recently, the government has changed the way permissions for crown copyright have come about. It's devolved not to a single, centralized source but to the departmental source where the material was created.

Industry committee  You can access it in our reading rooms.