Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  Thank you, Minister. The submission that was given to all the committee members this morning does address digital locks. The position of the consortium on that issue is that breaking of a digital lock should be prohibited only when the purpose of the breaking of the lock is to i

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  That's correct.

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  Yes. The statutory damage provision in the bill is intimately connected with the technological protection measures sections. In the digital lock sections, there's a provision that says that if you honestly believe you are not breaking a lock, then you shouldn't be penalized for

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  Thank you, Minister. If I understood your question correctly, Madame Lavallée, you asked whether there were any copyright law infringement suits against students or teachers in the country. The answer to that question is no, not many. There may have been the odd one here or ther

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  Thank you, Minister. The Council of Ministers' position on the 30-day destruction requirement is that it should be removed from the bill, for the simple reason that from the teacher's perspective, educational resources to create lessons are scarce and precious. It makes no sense

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  As I understand the provisions in Bill C-32, there is a carve-out that allows for circumvention of a TPM in the case of providing access to a perceptually disabled student. There is a problem with the drafting of the provision, because it requires that you do not “unduly impair”

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  I'm not a technical person, but from my theoretical understanding my answer would be yes. But the council's position and that of many of the user communities—libraries, archives, and museums—on technological protection measures overall is that you should be able to break the loc

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  The digital course pack provisions in the bill, and I'm going to be frank here, are very hard to understand. It's the longest section in the bill. The policy objective, or the intent of what those provisions are intended to cover, in my view is overly complex. I believe the react

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  No, not at all. Digital course packs—

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  Possibly it would be used. But there are problems, and we don't have time to go into that today. In the submission there are major problems with how this section is structured.

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  Thank you, Minister. My legal advice to the council--and you're not going to like my answer--is that users' rights in a copyright law should not be defined by regulation. They belong in a chamber like this, in a public debate in Parliament. I've been involved, over my 30 years

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  Yes.

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  The answer to your question is yes. A leave application has been filed with the Supreme Court of Canada to hear a very narrow issue that comes from that case. It's not all of it, it's a small part, but the principle is very important. The principle is, can a teacher make a copy f

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  No, it's paid to Access Copyright.

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  I can't answer that because I don't know what the internal accounting rules are in that corporation.