Industry committee  Nothing.

Industry committee  That would be the ultimate direction to go, with some steps along the way.

Industry committee  My understanding is that fair use in the United States is actually a broader right than fair dealing in Canada, that it's not restricted by a purpose, and that it has fewer limitations overall.

Industry committee  I believe it's section 18 of the current act. At the time when the tapes were made, decades and decades ago, it may have been a different section. It is a right that I think in some instances makes a lot of sense. The recordists would own and control the things that they record

Industry committee  I don't have an answer for that either, but I can commit to finding out, because that's something we will be able to put our fingers on.

Industry committee  What your point hits on is that these are very disruptive times, and new methodologies, new approaches, are being tried all the time. What we want to see coming out of this review is that the environment, that ecosystem, is protected. When it's open access, open education resourc

Industry committee  Our organization supports open access and we support those policies, but we talked about the disruption and the dislocation that it's caused. Moving to an open access system was something new for our members. It was greeted with interest and some skepticism, and, as it's develope

Industry committee  I think we would support the idea of making as widely available as possible that research knowledge for which the public has paid for the creation.

Industry committee  Yes, that would be the ultimate goal. That would be the direction that we would want to move towards. I know there are some areas where there are issues of confidentiality that may restrict that immediate flow. There are also areas where there is revenue derived from the commer

Industry committee  I have a newspaper article here. The headline says that B.C. is to lead Canada in offering students free, open textbooks. It heralds the program there to work on open education resources. The date, interestingly, is October 16, 2012, so we see things that have changed over the la

Industry committee  I'll speak to the compensation. For some of the creators, these would be university professors and researchers. They earn a salary every year, and producing this stuff would be considered part of their work.

Industry committee  There would be a multiplicity of different versions, but the core idea is that as part of their salary, university professors do this kind of writing and would volunteer to devote some of their time to these projects.

Industry committee  I heard that question earlier, and I thought about it. I have at least one answer, which is that $120 million per year goes to the CRKN, the Canada Research Knowledge Network. It is a consortium of universities that purchases a blanket licence to access digital material. Mostly,

Industry committee  This was a matter of some discussion within our membership. There wasn't unanimity at first, but a consensus has developed in support of open access. The genesis of it was a realization that our members, paid for by Canadian taxpayers, were producing vast amounts of literature, j

Industry committee  Yes, and this light bulb came on.