Industry committee  I think I would like to know as much as you would where that figure of 600 million copies comes from, quite frankly. I'm not sure where it came from. I'm not sure if it's K to 12 only or if it includes post-secondary copies as well. If there are 600 million copies per year, and i

Industry committee  I would suggest that our spending hasn't changed. The tariff amount that we pay—

Industry committee  We don't nationally. Education is a provincial jurisdiction, so it's very difficult to get national information on how spending occurs. It's actually difficult to get it even at a provincial level because not all provinces have the same budgeting structure. What might count as le

Industry committee  All right. Now I've completely lost track of my mind. With respect to spending, I would suggest it hasn't changed, but what's changed is what we're buying. We're buying more of the digital-based resources and a greater variety of materials. What was the other half of the ques

Industry committee  I can't and I wish I could, because I would love to be able to answer that question. I think that it would serve me well to be able to answer that question.

Industry committee  For collective licences it is. For licensing, I would suggest it is not. I think we do pay for licensing, and I do think we pay for reproduction rights.

Industry committee  In some cases, it's a distributor of an online database. It is the creator of a repository. Provincial governments, when they do material portals, will often pre-clear all of the materials that go on those portals and, where payment is required, will make that payment. This happe

Industry committee  I think the loss of revenue for Access Copyright can be attributed to many different types of changes.

Industry committee  I think if we were paying them, they would have that revenue, yes. Who wouldn't have it would be the same creators only in a different area. They wouldn't be getting it through these other areas.

Industry committee  I would suggest that most of the purchasing that happened in K-12 sections was through educational publishers, and very little of it went to individual authors, but, yes, there would be some impact.

Industry committee  I'm going to split your question in two. There's the education aspect, what we do to educate our staff, and Mark has spoken very eloquently about it. It happens at multiple levels. We all use consistent materials. You'll see that we have the same book. We use the same fair deal

Industry committee  I'm going to backtrack just a bit and clarify my comments about Access Copyright. What I was saying is that they haven't been able to convince with evidence in courts that it is the case. There's a lot of anecdotal evidence that they've come forward with, and stories that they've

Industry committee  I would agree. We don't believe there is a need to change the application of fair dealing as it currently exists in the Copyright Act or the interpretation that was put forward by the Supreme Court of Canada in its ruling. With respect to the issue of acquiring materials, I thin

Industry committee  My experience in this matter is limited, but with respect to the purchasing of materials, there are some issues we're thinking about. If we're talking about printed materials, I think we could look at some arrangements where materials are printed or published with different param

Industry committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair, and good afternoon, everyone. My name is Cynthia Andrew. I appear before you this afternoon representing the Canadian School Boards Association, whose members are the provincial school board associations, which represent just over 250 school boards across