Industry committee  Exactly.

Industry committee  We want to digitize a lot of these materials—

Industry committee  —because they have historical interest.

Industry committee  We can't digitize it and put it on the Internet without permission.

Industry committee  And it has to go document by document.

Industry committee  If you want to digitize a folder, which might include 5,000 documents, you have to go document by document to get the permission.

Industry committee  Most archives in Canada do have crown copyright.

Industry committee  Right. It could be a letter from an MP to a—

Industry committee  Yes.

Industry committee  That's right.

Industry committee  Yes, and if the researcher wants to use the material, they have to get permission from the department.

Industry committee  Exactly. It's no longer centralized.

Industry committee  First of all, I think there's no reason to have perpetual copyright anymore for crown materials. Making it 50 years from the date of creation is a reasonable first accommodation.

Industry committee  Yes, and I think that we then need to look at some of the more problematic areas, and I think we do need a proper.... There have been many different studies, but I think we need a current look at the issues, and we need to bring the stakeholders together to try to solve this prob

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