Well, certainly the federal government has a big role to play, and we're all expecting copyright reform in the next few months, as proposed by the industry minister and the heritage minister. This committee and the industry committee will certainly play an important role in that.
You've seen in examples like the one you've suggested--and we've seen numerous examples--that it is often tough, especially for intermediaries, to know who has copyright on what. We're put in the unfortunate position of playing cop.
For example, during the U.S. election, we received a takedown notice for some McCain campaign videos. It was alleged that they were infringing copyright. Now, the McCain campaign wrote to us and said that they were actually perfectly legitimate, that it was free expression and within the bounds of fair use under U.S. law, and they asked why we took them down. The answer was that we were obliged to under U.S. law.
Examples like this, I think, demonstrate how it's really important to focus on free expression values and rights as they relate to some of these things as well and, in all of this, to try to figure out what is the right balance for artists, for creators, and for everyone who is part of the ecosystem. By the way, I actually think that it's not that hard to do. I know that it feels really hard to do because you're inundated with all sorts of messages and the discourse feels almost religious; it feels like dogmatics from different camps are coming at you.
I don't think it's that so hard to implement the WIPO Copyright Treaty in a manner that effectively balances the roles of intermediaries, consumers, and creators in a manner that makes most people happy-ish.