Canadian Heritage committee  I'm done.

Canadian Heritage committee  Absolutely.

Canadian Heritage committee  Absolutely. I won't make this a history lesson, but our sector has evolved very much as a result of moving from a business that was largely based on importing foreign product—American largely, but also British—to today, when not only are we leading in terms of providing the Cana

Canadian Heritage committee  Absolutely, and our solution, which you also asked about, is to really re-engage with educators to create a digital commons that can answer those needs that have largely been dealt with in photocopy rooms in the K-to-12 sector in particular, and to work collaboratively with that

Canadian Heritage committee  First of all, I don't want to leave the impression that any of our members is at death's door. The reality is that digital has been a wonderful opportunity for us, and we're taking full advantage of it and we're engaging, as has been said by my colleagues, in a lot of very meanin

Canadian Heritage committee  I'll go quickly. Thank you. The use of excerpts will continue to be a solution in classrooms, as shown by the many millions of pages that are copied in classrooms every year. To facilitate access to that content, we propose developing an online portal, which we're naming “the di

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you very much, and good morning, everyone. We want to first of all thank all of you for the opportunity to appear before the committee, and we certainly appreciate being asked for our perspective on the critical question of creator compensation and copyright in Canada. M

Industry committee  I would probably think of an example in K-to-12 publishing, where authors are almost entirely not name brand or recognized authors. They're working as part of a team. They may be working on only a very specific part of a resource because they have deep subject-matter expertise in

Industry committee  Yes, and I'm certainly happy to provide those to the committee.

Industry committee  Okay.

Industry committee  I have just a couple of observations on that. Here we've tried to focus first of all on educational institutions as end user customers. Second, the trade publishing business, which includes things like Harry Potter and Fifty Shades of Grey, is a very different kind of business,

Industry committee  Yes, okay. So you're looking for, say, per capita spend—

Industry committee  Right, yes.

Industry committee  I'll start with the last part of that question. I think for all intents and purposes, we speak as one with our creators, and certainly you've seen the numbers and you've seen the impact of a reduction in royalties on creators' incomes. It has been pretty much in lockstep for pub

Industry committee  The two jurisdictions we looked at were really the U.K. and Australia. What's important there, in our view, is the importance of the effect on the market, which is, of course, one of the six factors in the determination of “fair” in our act. Those are given much more prominence a