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Industry committee To answer your question on fair dealing, we haven't done any research on what other countries are doing, because it doesn't apply to us, because we don't use fair dealing. I don't know if that answers your question.
May 29th, 2018Committee meeting
Jean-Philippe Béland
Industry committee We have no official relationship with YouTube. Having said that, as I mentioned in passing, Google and YouTube have big problems with fake news, as everyone knows. These companies announced that they would use Wikipedia extensively as a reference to counter fake news. This shows
May 29th, 2018Committee meeting
Jean-Philippe Béland
Industry committee We don't have a link with Google either.
May 29th, 2018Committee meeting
Jean-Philippe Béland
Industry committee Exactly. For instance, Google and YouTube may decide to use our content. Since we give everyone the right to use it, even for commercial purposes, these companies have the right to use it and they do.
May 29th, 2018Committee meeting
Jean-Philippe Béland
Industry committee It includes everything published by the U.S. federal government. State governments have their own regulations, just as here in Canada, the provinces have their own regulations. However, everything produced at the federal level is in the public domain as soon as it is published, i
May 29th, 2018Committee meeting
Jean-Philippe Béland
Industry committee From what I understand, crown copyright is defined by section 12 of the Copyright Act. I think that if this section were amended, the government could be forced to put these documents in the public domain.
May 29th, 2018Committee meeting
Jean-Philippe Béland
Industry committee No. As I said earlier, I don't have that information on hand. But we could send it to you.
May 29th, 2018Committee meeting
Jean-Philippe Béland
Industry committee Yes, absolutely. For example, a brief was submitted before this committee by Creative Commons, which supports the same position.
May 29th, 2018Committee meeting
Jean-Philippe Béland
Industry committee Do you mean how we, as Wikimedia Canada, use it?
May 29th, 2018Committee meeting
Jean-Philippe Béland
Industry committee Actually, we use the written content as a reference for Wikipedia, for example, but we don't use the content itself. We never copy that content; we don't even use fair dealing. Everything produced on Wikipedia is under free licence. I don't know if that answers your question.
May 29th, 2018Committee meeting
Jean-Philippe Béland
Industry committee Not only is it open access, but we give everyone the right to use and modify it as they see fit.
May 29th, 2018Committee meeting
Jean-Philippe Béland
Industry committee In our view, legislative changes are not an option if the Government of Canada's publication licensing system is to be changed. That is the main argument I support. If we want to avoid having to amend the act, we suggest not changing the term of copyright. Currently, copyright e
May 29th, 2018Committee meeting
Jean-Philippe Béland
Industry committee I will answer in French, if that is okay. The reason we don't post ads is because we want to remain independent. In our view, knowledge and expertise should not be influenced by external organizations. It is this reasoning that explains why we haven't become a commercial platfor
May 29th, 2018Committee meeting
Jean-Philippe Béland
Industry committee As I mentioned at the beginning, Wikipedia sites are operated by the Wikimedia Foundation, which is based in the United States. Wikimedia Canada is an independent organization. So I couldn't answer for all the sites. However, according to what is published, we have no intention o
May 29th, 2018Committee meeting
Jean-Philippe Béland
Industry committee Yes. In the United States, when the work produced by the employees of the federal government and its agencies, such as NASA, is published, this content is automatically in the public domain, because the federal government considers that the population has already paid through its
May 29th, 2018Committee meeting
Jean-Philippe Béland