It's important to recognize that the purpose of exceptions to copyright infringement is to guard against situations where otherwise reasonable access to works would be unavailable; it would be compromised. But there is more than one way to achieve that.
CSI's position is that where there are ways to achieve that balance between access and compensation without depriving creators of the right to receive compensation, those alternatives should be preferred. In our view, collective licensing is exactly that alternative, because collective licensing provides access to users at a reasonable and regulated price with reasonable effort at a reasonable time. That principle is already enshrined in the Copyright Act, both in relation to the federal recordings exceptions, which we talked about today, and to many of the exceptions that are available for educational institutions, which are not available if the work is commercially available.
We propose the same for the other new exceptions that are suggested in Bill C-32.