At that same school, there are non-indigenous teachers who do teach and have created good relationships in the community, have built the trust of the children and have put together specific processes. Again, if someone was to put some of that traditional knowledge into a different format, like a textbook or audio material or a website, would that person be able to then have copyright to be able to have those works produced in a larger format?
I'm just worried that, if we don't have certain rules about how we navigate these areas, we won't see the propagation of culture and new innovation, especially. There's a gentleman who's tweeting an Inuktitut word a day and again, there's a teacher who's taking that content with his permission and formalizing it in school. That's an innovation. At some point, he may choose to codify it in a book. That's where I think many of these things have to be answered.
I appreciate your submission today.
If I could, I'd like to go quickly on to the artist resale. First of all, if someone is indigenous—and again, not all first nations, as there's also Innu, Inuit, Métis—would all those be able to participate in this registry? What if someone does not identify their works as indigenous, specifically, but they're of indigenous origin? How does that work with the registry?