Industry committee  Yes, of course. The CRTC actually issued a ruling. It was in the case that was referred to earlier in which the Quebec government had sought to require people to block access to gambling sites. The CRTC is very clear. It spelled out that even where there is a municipal order, a c

Industry committee  Mr. Masse, I can actually give you a concrete proposal that tomorrow would put money into the hands of artists. Right now under the Copyright Act, when radio stations play sound recordings or the recordings are played in stores and restaurants, royalties are paid. Parliament has

Industry committee  I'm not an expert on international copyright developments, but as I understand it, article 13 has not yet been implemented. There are still some negotiations that have to take place within the European structure. We don't know what the final version will look like. Basically, it

Industry committee  There are two things that could be done to help speed up the process or make it more efficient using the Federal Court as a tool. One is to clarify the court's powers to order the specific blocking of a URL or to de-index it from a search engine to avoid the jurisdictional fight

Bill C-11 committee  The concern is on the hosting exception. In hosting, you make the storage and you store the copy into the host. The existing language talks about the act of providing digital memory not being an infringement of copyright; the concern is that if someone were to think of the copyin

Bill C-11 committee  The issue is in proposed subsection 2.4(1.1) of the existing bill, which would treat any transmission over the Internet as a communication to the public by telecommunication, which is generally the right that's applied to broadcasting activities. What Shaw has suggested is that y

Bill C-11 committee  I would say that even small creators need the opportunity to reach their market. Certainly the Internet, as Google testified, gives unprecedented ability for the small creators to reach and find their audiences and to sell. We need to have the tools in place that promote legitima

Bill C-11 committee  Certainly every jurisdiction in the world that has looked at implementing the WIPO treaties has understood that providing safe harbours for intermediaries is essential. To echo the testimony you had by Jacob Glick from Google, the investment community has also recognized that pro

Bill C-11 committee  Yes, it does, again subject to the technical amendments that Shaw has put forward. By recognizing the specific roles for hosting and providing Internet access and by exempting liability for those functions, Bill C-11 takes the right approach.