Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  Yes. Ultimately, it's a distinction that would be interpreted by the courts, but I would argue that there are certain classes that clearly fall in each. Non-commercial infringement would be the private copying that Canadians do every day with their content: making backups that r

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  I have two very quick responses to that, and actually they're varieties of the same one. I don't think consumers act that way. That's not how we think or operate in the marketplace. We don't draw our incentives based upon the remedies available to copyright holders and the Copyr

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  They'd be users, right?

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  When I say “users” I mean “consumers”. Large scale infringers, if they're on a commercial scale, the commercial infringers, are not captured by the minimum.

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  Yes. That Federal Court of Appeal case is incredible, in that the court actually looked at Bill C-32and said that the educational fair dealing amendment won't change the fairness analysis. So it won't have an impact on the business model. It won't have an impact on the need to pa

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  I'm not familiar enough with the specificities of those sites, the facts of what those sites do, but I would definitely say that businesses that build a business model on encouraging wealth-destroying activities and piracy should be illegal in Canada.

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  That's right.

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  Absolutely. The educational fair dealing exception, in my view, is the single most widely misunderstood provision of the act. In my view, it does a few very important things, but they're not major things. The one thing that it doesn't do is undermine business models or undermine

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  Documentary film as a form was invented in this country, so we should pay special attention to the filmmakers' interests. You are absolutely right: the anti-circumvention provisions in particular are a problem for documentary filmmakers. They're going to become a bigger problem

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  I'll make three comments here. One, on the response to go to the markets and negotiate access, you forget that copyright is about exclusivity, right? Copyright gives control and the power to say no. Copyright has a dangerous potential for being a tool of censorship, especiall

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  I have a quick comment on the user-generated content exception. I don't have an issue with what you said. They all seem to be good responses to the phenomenon. The major point is that you don't want to have a situation where children at home are liable for copyright infringemen

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  It's the right approach. It allows our networks to concentrate on being the best networks they can be, and that's what they need to concentrate on.

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  I don't know of any statistics, but I can give you anecdotal evidence. People come to my clinic, having received these notices, and the advice I give in the discussion we have usually results in the clients saying, “This is never happening again in our house.”

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  I don't think you would have seen me write anywhere that I reject the term “intellectual property”. At the clinic, we're staunch supporters of an effective system of copyright and other intellectual property that works for all Canadians. Could you repeat the first part of the qu

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  Consumers can certainly turn into creators, and today, more and more, there are new forms of creativity available to consumers. I don't think I said that consumers would become owners of intellectual property. It may have been when I was trying to explain that I understand that t