Canadian Heritage committee  Yes, very quickly, we recommend that you clarify fair dealing for education, and that means essentially signalling to the education community that they need to license to take full advantage of the grey areas in the Copyright Act, rather than appropriating the right to copy. They

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you, Madam Chair and members of the committee. I'm Glenn Rollans. I'm president of the Association of Canadian Publishers, known as ACP, and co-owner and publisher of Brush Education in Edmonton. I am joined by Kate Edwards, who is the executive director of ACP. We acknow

Industry committee  Could I add something?

Industry committee  The Canadian tariff in place for K-to-12 is less than $2.50 per full-time equivalent, so there is a lot of room between there and $17 to talk about what's in included in a licence or a tariff. We're in business. We're ready to talk.

Industry committee  I agree with that, and I'll just add the point that the Copyright Board is well down the road from licensing. In an ideal relationship, if the right incentives and the right sanctions are in place, we'll be back at the table any time, literally. I will travel anywhere in the coun

Industry committee  There have been some mentioned, but I would add one. I think that the Government of Canada has significant financial leverage in the post-secondary sector in particular. I know that, as a publisher, if I apply for public funding, I'm asked to demonstrate that I'm paying contribut

Industry committee  The question is specifically how we would address the Copyright Board. We've also submitted a brief, and the first recommendation in it is to appoint case managers to manage procedural issues and codification of case management rules and timelines. The kicker is so that the proc

Industry committee  I'll go beyond that. I agreed with about 90% of CFLA's statement. We're all part of a culture of reading and there's broad agreement, but there are some significant issues. The second recommendation is to address statutory damages available to collectives to encourage compliance

Industry committee  Again, I think it's a really robust solution to attach value and payment. It's flexible. It encourages innovation. I'm always very worried when I'm asked to prove damage because we've been through a period of six years now from the amendment of the Copyright Act that should have

Industry committee  Absolutely, yes, the information economy, the local economy, and the national economy. The key thing when thinking about adjustments is to attach value to payment. Doing that keeps a functioning economy. When you break that chain, you break it, and that's why the principle of sp

Industry committee  Yes, they've specified.

Industry committee  I'll step in, if that's okay. I'd first like to encourage you not to think of copyright as something that's adjusted to keep cultural industries within the lines. We're supposed to do well. We're supposed to be tigers for Canadian culture, Canadian identity, and looking at—

Industry committee  Without knowing more about the licences, it's hard to be specific about that. What I can say is that, in some ways, we're talking about a distraction. If somebody says they're spending a lot of money here, and then when facts are examined in court or at the Copyright Board, the e

Industry committee  What's there in the licences is variously 10% to 20% of a work or a complete chapter. That works for me under licence.

Industry committee  Depending on the sector being licensed, it's 10% of a work or 20% of a work or a complete chapter. Those were the terms in the licence. That's what's been named now in the unfair copying practices.