Industry committee  I'm sorry. I'm not following. What is the question?

Industry committee  My understanding is that's the length of the copyright, life plus 50.

Industry committee  No, it's the opposite. I would not.

Industry committee  It's fine as it is. I wouldn't extend it. I don't have a recommendation for reducing it. I think it is what it is.

Industry committee  Well, what I'm saying in my opening comments is that I do not wish for it to extend to 70 years.

Industry committee  Because I deal in an academic institution and most of the content that we're talking about is academic in nature that's requested and required by our faculty and researchers—that's also what they feed into—there's a great bit of dynamism right now among academics who publish to t

Industry committee  I think that creators have some power. I know that's true in the academy.

Industry committee  Well, it depends on the copyright holder. We try when we can. As Mr. Bell explained, we have a system and a number of staff devoted solely to the purpose of trying to find out who owns the copyright, and we'll negotiate either a permission or a payment, depending. That may go dir

Industry committee  It's similar for us too. We don't really have direct dealings with the Copyright Board that I am aware of, but I would echo what was just said down at the end of the table.

Industry committee  The Supreme Court of Canada decisions and Bill C-11, the Copyright Modernization Act, improved things for the educational sector all over. It says that teachers are there to facilitate students' research and private study. The teachers' purpose in providing copies to students is

Industry committee  We're paying Access Copyright when it's appropriate, when the material requested for a course pack comes from material that we need to negotiate payment for. In other words, if a faculty member is creating a course pack that includes a printed work or a chapter or more from a pri

Industry committee  Right. That's what I'm trying to say. Thank you.

Industry committee  I don't know that it's necessarily a problem. I think that it's an insurance so that something like what was just described doesn't become more normative in licensing. Right now fair dealing helps us negotiate licences that allow us to do certain things with content. We put them

Industry committee  It would depend, for me at least, on how that would be managed. Many of our students aren't necessarily capable of paying any access rights that they might have to negotiate.

Industry committee  Yes.