Industry committee  There is uncertainty as to whether the underlying work itself.... If it is a digital copy of a book, it would be a literary work regardless of what stage. Think of natural language processing, for example. You would want to teach a system how to understand a sentence and context

Industry committee  I'm not sure how you would deal with that. I think there should be some clarity as to whether or not that's permitted under the current framework. I think the 10% rule is a little bit different in this context, because you're not giving 10% of the book to a student or to another

Industry committee  I think blockchain would be able to help us in the sense that it can automate decision-making using a smart contract for distributing payments, for example, or for tracking usage. It's just a way to upload that data. It could use a huge dataset. Then you could run artificial inte

Industry committee  I have one question about the process. I understand that written submissions are going to be accepted. Is there a timeline around when they should be submitted?

Industry committee  Okay.

Industry committee  If the data is a book, like a digital copy of the book, it would be subject to copyright. It's just the digital format of a literary work.

Industry committee  It's difficult for me to say because I'm not exactly sure how that would implemented all the time and given that there's a jurisdictional issue that needs to be addressed. Before the Supreme Court, they already tried to issue an injunction against a technology company. That was a

Industry committee  Even if you changed that law, I'd query whether companies that don't reside in this country would have to follow that.

Industry committee  It will be very difficult to track that kind of behaviour and to know what's happening in somebody's home. It would be quite difficult. But if that copy were uploaded onto the Internet somewhere, even if it were in image format, not text format, there are OCR, or optical characte

Industry committee  Yes, it can learn from text or video images.

Industry committee  It could access that book. Whether the trainee of the system or the owner of the system would do that without their permission probably depends on that person. Those who are being diligent and law abiding would not use that without his permission, because there's an uncertainty r

Industry committee  The technology can be set up to crawl along, as you mentioned. Some technologies might be doing that already, crawling the Internet, trying to find whatever they can out there and learn from it. Whether a company is going to take those documents, make copies, bring them in-house

Industry committee  I don't know of a way to track whether that's happening, but there could be systems that are hosting the book. If a system is offering that book, they might notice that a crawler has come in and accessed that book.

Industry committee  It conceivably could, if the technology is set up to do that. That would be a violation of the technology protection measure. There are technologies that can circumvent technology protection measures that exist out there. You could combine some technologies.

Industry committee  It can be programmed to deal ethically with copyright in the event that there is, let's say, an embedded tag thing—do I have permission to copy this work, or not? It could listen to that tag. It's a computer code that would run that. It could be set up that way.