I was indicating that our works are being copied and used freely digitally, that e-books and stuff are being used without any reference at all to the original licence under which they were sold to the library in order to form course packs, and that we are receiving no compensation for that at the university level. At the high school and K-to-12 levels, the teachers have such an enormous burden to produce their own curricular materials that they're running around copying stuff left and right, and they can't really be expected to be chasing down permissions and trying to deal with that.
That's why the licence through Access Copyright was such a fair thing. They paid one fee per student per year and basically could copy, under the guidelines, as much as they like. We know that maybe they don't follow those guidelines closely, but at least in principle they know that they can go out, generate their course materials, and copy them.
I think the best way to ensure a fair process is that the tariffs set by the Canadian Copyright Board be respected and be paid by the ministries of education and by the universities. The ministries of education and the universities have decided to try to exhaust the resources of authors and publishers and Access Copyright through a prolonged legal struggle and to draw it out and bring as many actions as possible to basically exhaust our resources.
Not only is it not fair, and not only are our works being copied in a systematic and commercial way, but I also regard this as the highest form of bullying. Basically they've taken tactics from the wider marketplace and brought them into the sphere of culture and education, which I consider an inappropriate play.