Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  I would love to have gotten in a word on statutory damages, but that will have to wait until next time.

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  I did mention in the statement that for the individual creators we represent, we have no objection to the use of technical protection measures, but they don't give us what we need individually. As for the big corporate players and so on that think they can make a lock that nobody

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  I would just say, as one of the gentlemen over here pointed out earlier, that there's no perfect system. It's a moving target. However, I think that the safe harbour concept in this bill is basically letting the guys and gals who own the pipelines off the hook. It says they don't

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  It's very similar for Access Copyright. As affiliates, we can certainly make sure that they provide you with whatever statistics we have. There's a per student rate, which is currently $3.63, and then there's 10¢ a page thereafter for up to 10% of a work. If you need more than th

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  For our part, I think the graduated response is the thing. We don't want to go after widows and orphans. It's a culture that's not working. That approach is not working. However, as you've heard before at this committee, we need a test of what makes it an original work so that th

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  As Mr. Knopf mentioned in the last panel, the courts don't always get it right, but I think in this case at least they moved towards an appropriate decision. The second half of that class action case is about to be settled, we hope, for about $5 million. I did give the clerk so

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  The interesting thing with the collectives is that we sit around the table with publishers and Access Copyright. We're equally represented, creators and publishers, and it's in our joint interests, because it's about the secondary uses: it's about the copying of the works. It's n

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  Yes. We'd go further if we could, but that would certainly be a step in the right direction.

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  I have great hopes for it. Of course, the magazine industry in Canada depends on freelancers to a huge extent. The smaller ones can't afford staff writers, and the larger ones have been through some difficulties. They have been letting go of staff and using more freelancers. We

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  Our friends from the Conservatives may remember when Flora MacDonald was our minister. It was she who helped us get that set up, and we've been doing it ever since. I think it was maybe in the early 1980s.

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  Definitely, we would prefer it. We don't think that the word “education” needs to be in there. We think that private study and so on--

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  I'm not a lawyer. I'm sure you're all familiar with this document that was published a week ago today. In our coalition, we do have some very intelligent legalists are working on amendments, as I mentioned in the written brief that we submitted to you, but we're not prepared to b

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  If I may, the collectives give all of their money to the rights holders except for what they need to administer.

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  If we have to go to court for 10 years, that's our money that's being spent. As Mr. Freeman, I think, pointed out the other day, our money is being spent on lawyers instead of feeding our families.

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  We believe the system that we have now is working well.