Bill C-11 committee  I think the educators might want to educate themselves, first of all. Have a discussion about copyright in your schools, try to understand it, and clarify it for your people. It's not that difficult. I don't think fair dealing is going to help with that clarity at all, quite fran

Bill C-11 committee  Resale right is actually very old. France had it in about 1920. It's in many countries around the world. Let's say an artist I represent had a work resold in Britain. I have a reciprocal agreement with a collective in Britain that collects resale rights; because we have no reci

Bill C-11 committee  That is correct, yes. We are out of sync with the rest of the world, basically.

Bill C-11 committee  Well, it's not as black and white as it looks. I think the act as it exists now has a huge section dealing with education and what education can and cannot do. It's well understood. Bill C-11 tries to add to that and clarify some things. Some of them I don't agree with, but some

Bill C-11 committee  It's funny, because English law called copyright “copyright”, the right to copy. The French call it droit d'auteur, which is deeper; it's the artist's right. The inclusion of moral rights kind of makes it that. It's your right to be credited or to remain anonymous, your right of

Bill C-11 committee  Okay. My last thing is to not encourage the kids to infringe copyright and to respect artists' creations as they would want their own to be respected. I thank you for the opportunity.

Bill C-11 committee  Good afternoon. I thank you for this opportunity to speak as a member of the visual arts sector. I'm accompanied by Adrian Göllner, who's the past chair of my organization and a practising visual artist himself. We agree that copyright reform in Canada is long overdue. I work