Canadian Heritage committee  Good morning. Thank you for inviting us to speak today. I'm the executive director of the Regroupement des artistes en arts visuels du Québec, or RAAV. With me today is our president, Moridja Kitenge Banza, who is a visual artist. In its brief, the RAAV calls on the committee

Industry committee  Again, I think we're talking about tools, that the law needs to be technologically neutral. We're talking about ways to apply the right, which would be traceability, blockchain, arts banks. There are tools. There's the copyright filing that you can do. The tools exist, and they n

Industry committee  It's only a tool, though.

Industry committee  Yes, it's only a tool, and there's always a person who has written the computer language behind it, so that the copyright law—

Industry committee  What I can add is that for our collective—RAAV is 50% owner of the collective and CARFAC is 50%—we're already working on this system to make it very simple for art to be registered and to get the relevant information to make the ARR work. It is simple. I was at the international

Industry committee  Yes, let me add to that, if I may. If we're talking about very simple modifications that could be done to the law, one is to cancel the limit date for exhibition rights of June 8, 1988, to open up the exhibition rights. It's very simple; it's just to strike out that date limit i

Industry committee  At this time, I'll simply refer you to the various criteria indicated in the Australian legislation, in the CCH Canadian Ltd. case, for a better definition of the concept of fair dealing. Thank you.

Industry committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'm the Executive Director of the Regroupement des artistes en arts visuels du Québec, or the RAAV. I'm joined by Moridja Kitenge Banza, the President of the RAAV and a visual artist. Our presentation will focus on three topics. These topics are the discri