I regret not being able to answer your question on international examples as specifically as I would like. There are international examples that should not be followed, such as the United States. It is proven that the system they have adopted does not work; it is not a solution.
Somewhat controversially, France is adopting some measures that involve... Again we are talking about taxes. The people who are affected, the large companies, are talking about a tax on profit when it actually contributes to making works accessible to the public, by taxing the people who make money from the system at the source. And the people who are making money from the system are the distributors. Basically, that is where we have to go look for the money. Then we can give everyone the right to make copies as they please. We must adjust the amount charged at the source.
At home, we have a mechanism called the Copyright Board that is highly respected. For years, as part of a quasi-judicial process, this organization has created a balance between parties, specifically between the interests of users and those of consumers. That tribunal has an appeal process. There's a whole system in place. Why not use it wisely?
The direction the French seem to want to take is to collect the royalties at the source, from those who make money using the system, and make things accessible to everyone. It's a way to collect money just like the way taxes are used to fund the university system or the hospital system. I pay like everyone else and I use it when I need it, and it costs nothing, or almost nothing. It is a revenue collection system that goes hand in hand with expenditures and would make access easy in the case of intellectual property.