Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  The reality is that it will help us to deal with our clients in a much better way. Particularly I want to make one point—and I'm not sure it's been discussed—with regard to those in our communities who are taking programming at a distance. I think those people will benefit by som

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  Let me make a start at that, and then I'll turn it over to my colleague. The other gentleman asked if there were other issues with regard to the act that we have some concern with, and this is one. We can deal with the letter of the prospective law. We can, through technology me

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  Generally speaking, yes; we think it's fine. We just wouldn't want to see other hurdles put in the way of that important activity.

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  Absolutely we do have opinions on other parts of the bill. I can deal with those summarily, if you wish. The reason we focused on the education is because that is where we think the nuts and bolts are of what we think is good about this particular iteration of Bill C-32. So tha

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Ladies and gentlemen, I want to thank you for taking the time to hear from CARL today. I'm here as the president of the Canadian Association of Research Libraries, although I'm also a librarian and the vice-provost at the University of Alberta,

Canadian Heritage committee  Well, anything would be helpful. The cost of the digitization that I referred to is in the hundreds of millions of dollars. There's no question about that. But as I said earlier, every little bit helps—$500,000 here, perhaps matched by this, that, or the other institution. That's

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you very much for that opening. I don't know how much clock I have to burn...? One minute. I'll waste a little bit of it to say that we share a bit of heritage. I also was a trustee of the Ottawa Public Library, from 1978 to 1983 or 1984, before I moved west. There are a

Canadian Heritage committee  That gets into a bit of a technical and legislative view, and I'm sorry I stumbled on the issue before. Mr. Angus, I'm not sure I'm the right person to give you a sense of what should be done. Certainly my community believes strongly, as I think you just articulated, that we ha

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes, exactly. Having said that, in some ways I'm not sure. Everything is interpretable, and probably we'll be interpreting whatever the wording is for years and years to come. Possibly it's going to have to be dealt with in the courts in some fashion, as it has been in many other

Canadian Heritage committee  Two hundred thousand dollars.

Canadian Heritage committee  Very well indeed, actually. As you said, the first challenge is digitization. In many ways, it's the easiest, but it's very expensive. It's easiest in terms of technologies involved. Those are sophisticated today. We know what we're doing and we know how to do it, but really it'

Canadian Heritage committee  Sorry, I'm not sure I know what you mean by “notice and notice”.

Canadian Heritage committee  I'm afraid I don't. I'm going to have to get back to you on that.

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes. I'm trying to think of a way of explaining it--in such a fashion that even I can understand. I suspect that when dealing with copyright there are many perspectives. I'm afraid one of the things that will happen when the new act comes in is that no one will be totally satisf

Canadian Heritage committee  I think the answer is yes. I won't pretend to be an expert in that area. We have others who are, and we can get back to you. But, yes, we believe we have a certain package of rights under fair dealing, and where we don't have those rights, either through fair dealing or licences,