Bill C-11 committee  Yes, we're content-neutral, if you will.

Bill C-11 committee  I think the bill strikes the right balance. It says “notice”. For notice, most people who come into their house and ask their kids what they were downloading, that's going to stop it right there.... The second notice, even more effective, and the third, maybe there's a hardcore g

Bill C-11 committee  The example that's often used is a YouTube video of your child with music playing in the background, or a slide show that you create with music in the background. If that is non-commercial and you're not making any money from it...and it's being done right now. It's within the ab

Bill C-11 committee  It might lead to more lawsuits, but more importantly, I think you'll never be able, as that mother, to take your DVD and transform it into another format for the car or whatever, because no one would ever create software that would allow you to do that. She probably, unless she's

Bill C-11 committee  I see the conceptual link, if you will, but we just don't believe there's going to be the level of private use that will cut into sales such that a levy would be necessary. What we're talking about here is people being able to make a backup so that if their kid steps on their DVD

Bill C-11 committee  Mr. Chair, committee members, and Madam Clerk, my name is John Lawford, and with me is Janet Lo. We are counsel to the Public Interest Advocacy Centre, one of four major Canadian consumer groups who have banded together under the title of the Canadian Consumer Initiative, CCI. Th