Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  Could I just make a comment?

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  It's been suggested that the three-step test be incorporated into the law to provide some guidance. We agree with Professor Pina D'Agostino; when she appeared before this committee she said that would just bring more ambiguity. And we agree with Professor Geist, who said the si

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  Perhaps I could respond to that question. First of all, our comments were directed at the amendment to fair dealing and whether or not that might undermine the $40 million in revenue for Copibec. I don't think we meant to say there would be no possible loss of revenue from any o

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  I think it's important to students and to professors and teachers. If we were just dealing in an educational setting with any individual using publicly available work on the Internet, you could certainly make strong arguments that there's an implied licence to use that or that it

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  We were given the figure of over $300 million by the Canadian Association of Research Libraries. It involves spending by libraries in universities across Canada. Of that $300 million, my understanding is that $160 million, approximately, is for licensing digital resources--for ex

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  In my view, that would be fair to say, and the reason is that most of the revenue for Copibec and Access Copyright comes from the licensing of multiple copies of such things as journal articles and chapters from books. We have a strict ruling on multiple copying for educational p

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  Madame Lavallée, I'd like to respond to a few of the points you raised. First of all, in regard to the educational community, nothing in Bill C-32, for starters, is going to change the revenue going to the collectives such as Access Copyright and Copibec. It's not about saving m