Industry committee  I really appreciate the chance to address this particular issue. First of all, in our publishing program we have made a big shift from having a lot of non-indigenous people writing about indigenous subject matter to trying to make more of an effort to engage indigenous people to

Industry committee  Yes. I mentioned them earlier, but I have them here before me. The best example, of course, is to give you my own numbers. I carefully looked these up for you before I came. Prior to the Copyright Act we averaged close to $20,000 a year in copyright income. That was $18,500. In

Industry committee  I can point out a few of them. For example, as I think I indicated earlier, a lot of our sales are in the university market, so the bookstores have made a real effort to get students to sell back the textbooks. There's a real increase in the number of used textbooks in the unive

Industry committee  We do have some digital rights protection on our PDFs and we rely predominantly on the vendors of ebooks to use the digital rights protection, because we basically sell our books through ebook vendors.

Industry committee  It's everyone from Amazon to Apple iTunes. There are probably about 30 different ones, and we use a commercial distributor that basically sends the file to all of them. In some ways, the copyright protection is on them. On the ebooks that we sell off our own site, we have a lim

Industry committee  There's no problem with that. They just can't sell that copy or use it for commercial purposes.

Industry committee  That's right. I wanted to make one further comment, because I don't think someone's going to ask me this question, and it's on a bit of a thorny issue. Hopefully, I can do it in a minute. Basically, at Access Copyright they tried to refine the payment of authors and to distribu

Industry committee  Well, you could try to discriminate politically against somebody who wasn't practising politics to your liking, through the fact that they were adopting certain books and so forth and so on. That seems to me like almost beyond reasonable to think that authors or publishers whose

Industry committee  Yes, they are.

Industry committee  It's a performance of the work, and the recording of the performance becomes a fixation of the work.

Industry committee  If I publish a book, and I have a room of 50 people who want that book, generally speaking, 40 people will want the print book and 10 people will want the e-book. I consider my job to be the intermediary between the author and the reader. Obviously, in addition to all the editor

Industry committee  I was indicating that our works are being copied and used freely digitally, that e-books and stuff are being used without any reference at all to the original licence under which they were sold to the library in order to form course packs, and that we are receiving no compensatio

Industry committee  I'd like to think that we're going to be your most vivacious panel of the day. That will help you out. As mentioned, I am the proprietor, president, and publisher of Talonbooks, one of Canada's oldest independent literary presses. We celebrated our 50th anniversary in book publi