Thank you.
If our country breaks up, Madame Owen, I'm going to hold you personally responsible, because the Bloc are leaving, and they can't wait to go, but I'm sure many others would disagree with them.
I'm concerned as we move forward with copyright that we're creating a two-tier set of rights here, one in the paper world and one in the digital world, one in the analog world and one in the digital world. I want to look at the situation with the libraries and what really happens on the ground.
I'm looking at the changes to subsections 30.2(4) and 30.2(5):
(4) A library, archive or museum may provide the person for whom a copy is made...only on the condition that
(a) the person is provided with a single copy of the work; and
(b) the library...or museum informs the person [it is only to be used] for research or private study....
That seems fairly straightforward. I go and I want to take something out. You make me one photocopy of the work. You tell me I can't go make 20 copies and give them to all my friends. That's fairly straightforward.
Yet the next section, regarding interlibrary loans, subsection 30.2(5.02), says that:
(5.02) A library...or museum...may...provide a copy in digital form to a person who has requested it through another library...if the...library takes measures to prevent the person...from
(a) making [a] reproduction [in digital form];
(b) communicating that digital copy to any other person; and
(c) using the digital copy for more than five business days
I have two questions here. One is, does “taking measures” mean you're not allowed to do any digital interlibrary loans without the technical protection measures that will not allow anybody to make a secondary copy? And would the libraries across Canada have the means to take some student's master's thesis from 1983 and put a digital lock on it? Is that how you read “taking measures”?