Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I'd like to thank the witnesses for meeting with us today.
I'll be asking my questions in English.
Thank you, everybody. I'm going to pick up on the questions my colleagues have asked. The work of this committee will, ultimately, at the end of this, come up with some recommendations on a perspective dealing with copyright legislation, but we've heard a number of things.
We've heard from universities that the copyright legislation has been helpful to enable greater access for their students. We've heard from students and educators that they appreciate having limited access to a wide range of works, so they can provide that to students to enable learning.
We heard that copyright elsewhere and back here is paying less to authors. We certainly have heard from content creators and from authors that their revenues have come down, and from individual publishers that some of their revenues have also gone down. Yet, from a trends standpoint, we've heard that overall revenues have not.
There are gaps here in this particular understanding. We're trying to understand to what extent the act has aided in that, and from where some of those solutions might come.
Yesterday, when we were in Halifax, we heard in testimony that a platform technology could exist out there that would help enable revenues, based on titles and so forth, to go to individual authors on a per chapter basis. That may also help publishers, because those then become transactional licences.
I'm curious. With the advent of technology, and the need for students and young people to learn, and for creators to continue to be incented to create, do people see that platform technology as a solution at all?