Industry committee  I think it's fair for me to say that across sectors among law libraries budgets are decreasing and there's less funding available to purchase in particular packaged resources or digital resources or licences or continuing resources, which are very common in law, so books that are

Industry committee  I don't have any dealings with the Copyright Board to report. I have heard reports from others who have interacted with or had proceedings before the Copyright Board that processes might take a long time, but I personally don't have anything to say on behalf of CALL or the Univer

Industry committee  Do you mean as far as crown copyright itself is concerned?

Industry committee  Yes. I have a positive opinion of CanLII.

Industry committee  Many of our libraries would be libraries as defined in the Copyright Act, but I think some of them would not be. For example, large law firms and small law firms have libraries. They're not able to take advantage of the library provisions in the act, because I don't think they me

Industry committee  I don't have a strong view that crown copyright should be eliminated. I have not investigated it that much myself, but I have had conversations with other law librarians who are a lot more familiar with crown copyright than I am, and they assert that there is good reason for main

Industry committee  Again, it will vary quite a bit with the particular type of law library. I work in an academic law library. I actually forgot to mention that I also oversee the copyright and scholarly communications office. Many of our materials are licensed. For legal materials, it's quite inte

Industry committee  My name is Kim Nayyer. I'm here on behalf of the Canadian Association of Law Libraries, or CALL. I want to thank the committee for your careful and thorough work in this statutory review process. I do appreciate the opportunity to speak here in Vancouver, and I thank you for unde