Industry committee  I think IP statutes, whether it is the Patent Act or the Copyright Act, do give some space for private study and research. Research exemptions under the Patent Act can allow for this type of basement hacking. Definitely the commercial exploitation of that hacking would be off-lim

Industry committee  Around the exemption for information analysis is the theme of lawful access. I don't think my presentation made that clear enough, but we see lawful access as an important component of that. It's not about undercutting business models and accessing that data through illegal means

Industry committee  I'm not aware of court cases that have resolved this issue yet. I'd tend to say that the TPM would probably mean that lawful access is not mandated.

Industry committee  I think the act provides for clear rights on reverse engineering in clear, specific settings such as for interoperability or security purposes. The act accepts that there are purposes that override this and allow for a certain form of reverse engineering. For citizens in the di

Industry committee  The act right now strikes a good balance in identifying specific cases where reverse engineering makes sense. One example is security measures to identify the underlying security structure, and you can look to another example on interoperability. That gives consumers a good deal

Industry committee  In the field of AI, we definitely have a shortage of AI researchers and people skilled in the art, definitely.

Industry committee  I definitely believe that additional clarity can be reached under Crown copyright as well. It ties back into open data initiatives as well. If you look at licence terms that are offered by the government under open data licences, the aim is to make these things available without

Industry committee  The goal is to develop tools that ultimately indirectly are fed off and developed by access to that data. I use the expression “supply chain”. At the beginning, you have fundamental techniques, algorithms and basic hunches, of how to build the product or provide a solution. If

Industry committee  Right.

Industry committee  That, I think, is a point. There's a market failure around this because it's so voluminous.

Industry committee  I have up to seven minutes. Thank you, Mr. Chair. My thanks to all the members of the committee. My name is Paul Gagnon. I am a legal advisor with Element AI. I deal with matters of intellectual property and data. I'll give the testimony on behalf of Element AI in English, a