Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  Yes, I think the alternatives are very important. In the context where I teach--I teach tutorials, some with small groups, seminars, whatever--I don't have a complete reading list at the beginning of one of those courses that can be turned into a course pack and sold at the books

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  It would make us consistent with the United States, which has had “such as” in its copyright act for quite a while. In fact, with regard to education, it puts in parentheses, “including multiple copies for classroom use”, which is far beyond what any of the group here are recomme

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  I would say that the primary importance is not financial, as seems to have been stressed in earlier sessions, and even in this session. That question, certainly in my world, is of relatively little consequence. What I see all the time are students, and also librarians, to a cer

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  In the university setting, I can tell you that just this week I've been trying to negotiate a deal that involves UCLA and the Royal Court of Thailand concerning what existed originally on paper in microfilm. Short of my going at my own expense or maybe SSHRC's expense over to Tha

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  I would add, in this regard, that internationally, Canada can't afford to be the caboose in the train of development of digital technologies. We're very, very far behind. I've cited the case of the U.K., and there are several other parallel ones that could be cited as well. We wo

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  Could you repeat that again? I'm sorry, I missed the translation.

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  Yes. These revenues are not that high compared to the textbook-related and course-pack revenues, in any case. The amount that was cited earlier in this committee is approximately $3.50 a student. The prospect of it being raised to $45 a student to cover all the other things has b

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  I know this question of the definition of education has arisen before. But actually, I would make an ideal bill much broader than being restricted to merely adding education to that list of fair-dealing exceptions--

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  --and the people on my committee would as well. In fact, we suggest, and I reiterated that this morning, the notion of having “such as” or “including, but not limited to” preceding the list of fair-dealing exceptions. I think there are a lot of good reasons for doing that, rather

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  No, it's not a matter of including everyone. I think what you have to do is seek a principle that unites the ones that exist. For example, parody, satire, news reporting, criticism and review, and private study research all have a common thread to them with which education itself

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  I don't think I'm suggesting that. For example, libraries will still purchase books, and they will undertake licence agreements with organizations that service them. I wouldn't restrict the discussion to collective licensing per se. There is also the matter of individual copying

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  I think they're more germane, especially to the highly special function that universities serve, which is research. This then turns into teaching materials and so forth.

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  In that case we were responding to the portion of the bill that would give collective licensing agencies the ability to enter into the computer systems of universities, take a look around, audit, and check on what might be at intranet services within a particular course to see wh

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  First, I don't think there will be any change in the revenues of publishers who were in the business of publishing textbooks, for example. That would be ineffective, as far as I can tell. There's another regime where maybe collective licensing agencies should not have been given

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for inviting the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences to participate in your study of Bill C-32 to amend the Copyright Act. I am Jay Rahn, chair of the federation's task force on copyright. The federation represents more than 50,00