Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  Mr. Chair, thank you for the opportunity. I'll just make a few points. The first is that I think Professor Geist is absolutely talking about free copying. When it comes to the educational exception, one can copy up to a substantial part without infringing. Anything over or above

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  Thank you very much for the question. There are a lot of issues that are not in this bill. If you looked around the country, people would say that they'd asked for things in the consultations, but they're not seeing them in the bill. If we took every one of those and said that w

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Cardin. With respect to the terminology, I can actually see both sides of that question. When somebody buys a BlackBerry or an iPod at Future Shop or wherever, an amount is added. Is it a tax? It has an attribute of having an extra amount. Looking at it

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  Mr. Cardin, I agree with you that this is all about ensuring that ultimately artists get paid and are rewarded for their work. I think everyone would have to agree that uncompensated uses are detrimental everywhere. My own view is that we do a number of things. The first thing w

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  Can I answer that very quickly?

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  Thank you, Mr. Lake. I'd like to respond to a couple of comments that Professor Geist made in response to Mr. Angus's question. I do agree with the notion that we need very clear framework rules, but I fundamentally disagree about what those rules are. As well, I do not believe

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  Thank you very much, Mr. McTeague. That's a very good question. I think the enablement provision would be one of those tools that would help achieve a similar result in Canada. If you look at The Pirate Bay, The Pirate Bay is not directly liable for infringement. What The Pirate

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  Thank you, Mr. Lake. I appreciate it. The first thing to mention is the fact that we have a bill and we're at the committee. It really is essential for the Canadian economy that we move forward with this bill and get something that can be passed. I can't underestimate how import

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  Thank you for the question, Mr. Angus. I hope at a later point in time I get an opportunity to address the other part of your question, which Professor Geist dealt with, because I don't agree with that. Concerning this situation, I believe that artists are losing revenues, as y

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  Madame Lavallée, I certainly agree with a lot of your sentiment, particularly the sentiment that talks about droit d'auteur and how important that concept is in Quebec. Sometimes in English Canada we unfortunately don't perceive it that way. Your point is a very valid one, and t

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  In my view, several provisions would not comply with a three-step test. In my view, education, as currently drafted, is not a special case. It would affect the market and it would unreasonably prejudice the interests of the authors. The UGC provision as well is not a special case

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  It's unquestionably true that this will cause loss of revenues to creators. It won't be simply the broadcast mechanical royalty, which takes an existing situation with an existing tariff and removes money that the Copyright Board has already valued. On the educational exception

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  You ask a very good question. It's one that I could spend all of your time on. Unfortunately, I can't do that. There are two perspectives here. One is looking at the bill in its current form and looking at the bill as it could be when the unintended consequences are removed. In

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  I would like to thank the committee for inviting me to appear today to provide input on Bill C-32. Before starting my remarks, I would like to give you some background. I'm not telling you these things to boast, but because I understand some have expressed concern that I have o