Evidence of meeting #119 for Industry, Science and Technology in the 42nd Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was materials.
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Liberal
Frank Baylis Liberal Pierrefonds—Dollard, QC
You have this crown copyright in your archive. Someone comes along and says, “I'd like to access it”, and it's a big to-do for you because—
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Special Advisor, Copyright, Canadian Council of Archives
You can access it in our reading rooms.
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Liberal
Frank Baylis Liberal Pierrefonds—Dollard, QC
If they don't physically show up, you're effectively making a copy. Is that it?
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Special Advisor, Copyright, Canadian Council of Archives
We want to digitize a lot of these materials—
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Special Advisor, Copyright, Canadian Council of Archives
—because they have historical interest.
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Liberal
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Special Advisor, Copyright, Canadian Council of Archives
We can't digitize it and put it on the Internet without permission.
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Special Advisor, Copyright, Canadian Council of Archives
And it has to go document by document.
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Special Advisor, Copyright, Canadian Council of Archives
If you want to digitize a folder, which might include 5,000 documents, you have to go document by document to get the permission.
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Liberal
Frank Baylis Liberal Pierrefonds—Dollard, QC
If I understand it, your archives, the people you represent, have crown copyright documents.
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Special Advisor, Copyright, Canadian Council of Archives
Most archives in Canada do have crown copyright.
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Liberal
Frank Baylis Liberal Pierrefonds—Dollard, QC
They'll have these crown copyright documents. They will be physical documents, a book, say.
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Special Advisor, Copyright, Canadian Council of Archives
Right. It could be a letter from an MP to a—
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Liberal
Frank Baylis Liberal Pierrefonds—Dollard, QC
If someone wants to see that letter from an MP, they have the right to show up and say, “Show it to me”—
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Liberal
Frank Baylis Liberal Pierrefonds—Dollard, QC
—but you don't have the right to copy it and put it out there.
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Liberal
Frank Baylis Liberal Pierrefonds—Dollard, QC
Even if you wanted to put it out there, you'd have to physically go through every piece to get it....
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Special Advisor, Copyright, Canadian Council of Archives
Yes, and if the researcher wants to use the material, they have to get permission from the department.
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Liberal