Industry committee  It is, yes.

Industry committee  I don't believe they are in constant dollars. You'd think I would know that, but I got some help on this from some other folks.

Industry committee  It turns it the other way around, yes, and that's exactly the reason I introduced this.

Industry committee  Yes.

Industry committee  It would be closer to correct. That's right. The background for this document was really my effort to try to understand how trends as introduced to this committee in the previous document could be so dramatically different from the trends that I know exist for our members. Those

Industry committee  That's why we would like to see language in the act that reintroduces the importance of the marketplace and the commercial viability of that reproduction as paramount.

Industry committee  Their practices are different, but I think the principles are consistent enough and important enough that there wouldn't really be.... On the spot, I can't think of a meaningful division between the two for the purposes of the legislation.

Industry committee  One of the things I pointed to in my remarks was around digital solutions. We know that in terms of the presence of Internet access, etc., on certain first nations communities and territories, it is not always consistent. Certainly, to the degree that first nations learners often

Industry committee  For our member publishers, the integrity of that protection is critical to allowing us to move to more of an online way of serving our customers so that we can safeguard the intellectual property we're mounting and putting forward for the education sector in particular. E-books w

Industry committee  Collective licences are certainly one potential solution. We wouldn't say they're the only solution, but they have proven over time to be a very efficient one. Educational institutions certainly have options to license directly from publishers and other content providers. We expe

Industry committee  That's right.

Industry committee  Sure. Among our members are firms like Pearson, McGraw-Hill, Nelson, Scholastic, and on the education side, Wiley and Elsevier. Depending on how you would measure it, it's reasonable to say that we're probably doing in the vicinity of 80% of the paid commercial business that is d

Industry committee  On that question, I would point to the opportunity through the reform of the Copyright Board, which is under way almost as we speak and certainly will be this year, to examine statutory damages in some of the language. This has been pointed out both in the submission that our org

Industry committee  I can certainly do that. Our affiliation with Access Copyright is really through the individual firms that are members of the Publishers' Council. Pearson Canada, for example, would be an affiliate of Access Copyright. It would therefore be in receipt of royalties from Access Co

Industry committee  Excellent. Thank you for the opportunity to appear before the committee. We certainly appreciate the opportunity to add our perspective to what is a very critical area of concern for us and for all of our stakeholders. As mentioned, my name is David Swail, and I'm president of t