Industry committee  Make articles that are produced by the Canadian government publicly available immediately on publication, either through a Creative Commons licence or releasing it to a public domain.

Industry committee  I agree with my colleague's statements. I also want to echo that we are seeing shifts in business models that are challenging across.... There was a comment that was brought up earlier about Betamax. There's a company in the U.S. called OpenStax, which is a for-profit publishing

Industry committee  We are seeing a definite move towards that. I'm—

Industry committee  The Berne Convention.

Industry committee  At this point, it's really Russia, the U.S. and now Canada. One other thing I really just want to jump in on, though, is that—

Industry committee  I am a library member. I am a librarian by background. I'm a strong user of the Toronto Public Library. I am an active reader. I have a lot of empathy for those who are trying to make a living selling books. I don't believe that it is the copyright challenge that is preventing

Industry committee  Thanks, Laura. I echo those comments. Works that are paid for by the public are already the public's and should be easily accessible to use and be able to build, innovate and create on top of. We know that governments such as Australia's retain the copyright but publish works o

Industry committee  That's a great question. I think there is ample opportunity for those...there are differences between a machine reading a document and a human reading a document. The speed, access and ease with which a machine can read is vastly different from that of one human.

Industry committee  There is no difference in how they are compensated. Are we speaking in regard to textbooks?

Industry committee  Someone has to pay for a textbook to be created. Often, the way the textbooks are created now is either through institutional grants or through the universities themselves. There is also a branch of study called open pedagogy where they work with the students to create the text

Industry committee  They can be compensated through Creative Commons. Creative Commons does not mean that the book cannot be charged for. A book can still be charged for. It's just the creation of the work is made available for free. Cory Doctorow makes money on his books. It's exactly the same mod

Industry committee  With Wikipedia and with open content creations, I think we're seeing an additional industry being created that allows for work to be created and for people to still.... I would encourage these authors to look at different revenue streams. We are in a new digital era. The old mode

Industry committee  Wikipedia is written by experts and is accessible. There are many examples of textbooks that are crowd- and community-written by the medical community that are licensed under a Creative Commons licence. One of the big challenges with Wikipedia is it is currently being written at

Industry committee  Hello. Thank you for inviting me here today. I'd like to begin by acknowledging that the land on which we gather is the traditional unceded territory of the Algonquin nation. My name is Kelsey Merkley. I'm here as a public citizen and a representative of Creative Commons Canad