Industry committee  Well, I was wondering if you were going to ask me—

Industry committee  I should have clarified that as a faculty association, you wouldn't have approached us to talk about something like that. As academics, what we want to do is ensure that students are exposed to materials that will help them learn. In the notion of fair dealing, as we said, the ke

Industry committee  It's an interesting question. As I said, many of my speaking notes on that point come to me from CAUT, national level. Their framing of the issue is that works that have already been funded through public dollars ought to be made available to the public that paid for them. It go

Industry committee  Yes, that would be the idea.

Industry committee  I'd like to know the difference as well, because that issue often comes up. Many of the federal funding agencies now insist on open access publishing as a contingency of funding. I am being funded by NSERC, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, with the stipulati

Industry committee  In principle, I'm very much in favour, and I think most academics would be. Most of us are not interested in hiding and profiting from our work. As you say, we're already paid a good salary. We want to get our work out in the hands of people who can use it. I think that's really

Industry committee  You used the example of a student approaching us, a student at an institution, looking to move from, say, a bachelor's to a graduate-level program, and if they're a student at a university, presumably through their own institution they would have access. Personally, my bias has a

Industry committee  No. As I mentioned, the big concern we've heard is students sharing lecture notes and things online. That's become the one thing that's come to our attention over the past couple of months.

Industry committee  I thought it was very interesting. I think innovation is key in moving forward, and in all areas of academia. When you described it, it struck me as odd that this was new. I assumed there were already options like that available, so that was good to hear. It does seem like someth

Industry committee  No, I think we're happy with life plus 50, at least in our industry. I also was not aware that there was a difference between music and education. From our standpoint, we find life plus 50 preserves the balance of enabling royalties to flow to the families of the people who've p

Industry committee  I'm not sure what you mean by “across the board”. Do you mean equalizing across—

Industry committee  I'd have to hear the arguments for and against. I don't know why, actually, there's a difference. Do you know?

Industry committee  Thank you very much for the opportunity to be here today. As you mentioned, my name is Dave Westwood. I'm the current president of the Dalhousie Faculty Association, and we represent 950-plus academic staff, librarians, and professional counsellors at Dalhousie University. We a