Industry committee  Yes. I'd say, too, that the families did not want to just simply retell the stories that were told on the tapes. In that way, they could have had the copyright to themselves, or we could have worked it so that we could have claimed copyright, or at least claim that they were sti

Industry committee  I would say that perhaps the storytellers need to be treated as performers as well.

Industry committee  We don't have rights because somebody not of our community taped those stories.

Industry committee  Right.

Industry committee  I'm almost wanting to turn the question around and ask what you know is being discussed by this other committee in terms of copyright issues. We don't hear any of that, right? Whether you do, I'm not sure.

Industry committee  The problem for us is that it could happen that the copyright law doesn't get changed, so our barrier would still be the same. In order to publish these stories, we might end up having to go to court if we are sued for infringing the claimed copyright of the collector.

Industry committee  I've been so immersed in this struggle that I don't know a lot of other examples, but I do know that there have been other cases. There was a case I'd heard of some years ago in B.C. where a similar experience was had by the first nations community. I'm not sure if it was Daught

Industry committee  Of course.

Industry committee  That would be consistent, yes.

Industry committee  There could be several ways of dealing with this in a community. It could be a joint copyright, depending on the content of the story. If it's largely the intellectual content of the individual, I don't think the community would argue and say they have some claim to that story. B

Industry committee  Nothing has really changed in the sense that we're going to keep publishing and we're working on a second book right now, which is mostly done. We are hoping that copyright laws will be beneficial to us down the road and that we will not have to surrender copyright simply because

Industry committee  I think basically, our storytellers shouldn't lose any claim to the stories. That's the most fundamental issue here, which is what we are still struggling against. We haven't thought ahead in terms of compensation for our stories, except for the fact that we know that if we wer

Industry committee  [Witness speaks in Maliseet] [English] My name is Andrea Bear Nicholas. I am from the Tobique First Nation in New Brunswick, and I've been teaching as the St. Thomas University chair in native studies for 20 years. I'm very grateful for this opportunity to speak with you. As c