Yes. Thank you for the opportunity to comment on that.
You can go about it either way. Either you can say that there are no exceptions for AI, that AI is like everything else, and you can do it in a bill like Bill C-27 and go back and reference the Copyright Act, or you can make the change in the Copyright Act and say that this is the case.
We didn't create copyright for the printing press. We created copyright for Dickens and the recognition that the work was worth more than what you paid for it right away, and we extended term of copyright for sound recordings because people were starting to live to the point at which they could hear their song on the radio and not get paid, so we made that change.
If we say that we know they're scraping our stuff, and we know that's a use—it's of value—we can just agree now that that's the case and get out of those sorts of fun academic conversations about “I don't know. Is it a copy?” I know it's a copy. I know they're taking it because our stuff is a thing of value.