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Canadian Heritage committee  We're the conduit, in many cases, for the artists in Dorset. As I mentioned, our organization has a broad mandate. We don't just manage copyright. This is a very small part of what we do. We are promoters; we are marketers; we are travel companions when artists are travelling int

October 30th, 2018Committee meeting

William Huffman

Canadian Heritage committee  Not at all. In fact, for most of our artists, this is a job for them. This is how they make their income. We're in the process of educating our artists, even at this late date in Cape Dorset's history, about how important their work is as cultural expression. They see it as emplo

October 30th, 2018Committee meeting

William Huffman

Canadian Heritage committee  The recommendation is to look at our model. Since the 1950s, we've been very successful at managing all of these things, not only in distributing work internationally but also in the copyright and permissions realm. We'd happily assist in rolling out that model to other interes

October 30th, 2018Committee meeting

William Huffman

October 30th, 2018Committee meeting

William Huffman

Canadian Heritage committee  I think so. The more tools we have at our disposal to distribute resources in the form of financial benefit to our artists.... Yes, we'd welcome that. In the case of Annie Pootoogook, who arguably—and Corrie, I'm sure you would agree—is one of the most important Canadian artists.

October 30th, 2018Committee meeting

William Huffman

October 30th, 2018Committee meeting

William Huffman

October 30th, 2018Committee meeting

William Huffman

Canadian Heritage committee  Not that I know of.

October 30th, 2018Committee meeting

William Huffman

Canadian Heritage committee  There's very little recourse for them. If they are unwilling to allow their work to be reproduced, there is no structure for them to utilize or activate in the same way that we operate. It's very unfortunate. Even in the territory of Nunavut, government officials often are implor

October 30th, 2018Committee meeting

William Huffman

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you for your question. It is a very complicated procedure, to tell you the truth, for a variety of reasons that I identified in my remarks. These are artists who deal almost entirely in a cash economy, so we have to be prepared to provide payment to artists in whatever fo

October 30th, 2018Committee meeting

William Huffman

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you, Madam Chair and members of the committee. I'm William Huffman, and I represent the West Baffin Eskimo Co-operative, an organization with a very broad mandate but one that includes the management of copyright and permissions as it relates to Inuit artists in the region

October 30th, 2018Committee meeting

William Huffman