Industry committee  I know that I said this earlier, and Lynn Lavallee did as well. I support a really strong mandate for the Copyright Board, but I also support having indigenous representation on that board. I guess the other thing for me is that you mentioned timely decisions. In this regard, m

Industry committee  Coming from the west coast, we do actually talk about it as a performance, but it depends on the performance. For example, there are sacred performances that happen in the longhouse that you're invited to, and there are no cameras. Then there are other feast performances that hap

Industry committee  First of all, I need to say that I'm not a lawyer. I'm not giving you legal advice. You can talk to my sister, who is a lawyer, for that. I can't solve all of the legal dilemmas in about five minutes, but I can give you a good try. I think in every culture there's private and pu

Industry committee  I believe you have the Canadian Federation of Library Associations' statement on the creation of a strong copyright board to represent the multiplicity of views. I would add, when you're dealing with issues around indigenous knowledge, traditional knowledge or cultural expression

Industry committee  As a librarian, I am really all about open access to information. I think that's really important. There are many examples, when it comes to even sharing of traditional knowledge, where there are levels of access, whether it's family, or whatever. We want to get that knowledge ou

Industry committee  I could answer that. First of all, with any book published today in this era of reconciliation, or even in the last five to 10 years, the publishers should have ensured that they had permission from the community before they published it. If it has been taken and they have publi

Industry committee  I wouldn't say they need the permission of the entire community. Within our communities this is where there is that fallacy among non-indigenous people that all information is held communally. I know who owns a story and who has the right to pass on that story and I would go to t

Industry committee  I come from the perspective that I'd like to see the exceptions for use still left in the Copyright Act and left as is. Part of that is because, even as an author, I expect people to be able to use 10% of a published work. A published work is different from when knowledge is take

Industry committee  I first want to talk a little bit about ownership. Some indigenous knowledge is owned by an individual, by a clan, by a family, or it can be owned by the nation. But it's not all communal ownership. It's actually kind of a fallacy for people to think about communal ownership in t

Industry committee  Thank you. My name is Camille Callison and I am honoured to be here today presenting to the Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology. Thank you for the opportunity to join you today, and thank you to the committee members for the important work that you do on behal