Canadian Heritage committee  To be able to adopt an international position, we have to go back to the fact that fair use was rejected in England and New Zealand, and we have to ask ourselves why. That's what is important, I think. Canada is a signatory to the Bern Convention. That's important. I also want t

Canadian Heritage committee  The situation is specific to the performing arts. I said that the dissemination of excerpts of theatre plays was already permitted. However, I can tell you that, in our field, we've already defined what that should be. A theatre play is a theatre play and it should be performed o

Canadian Heritage committee  Good morning. The Société québécoise des auteurs dramatiques was founded in order to manage a financial agreement entered into by the Ministère de l'Éducation, des Loisirs et du Sport, MELS, previously the MEQ, on copyright payments owed for theatre plays performed by students i