Industry committee  What was your question?

Industry committee  I think there are a lot of studies showing that the authors are not being paid. I think it's quite obvious. As for who is getting the money, it's the Internet providers, the big ones like Google, Facebook, etc. The money is going there. That's the problem. They're making a lot of

Industry committee  As I said, maybe something close to the private copying regime with a type of compensation would be good. What I was saying is that, generally speaking, I find the copyright law much harder to read. Each time there's a modification, we just add pages and pages.

Industry committee  I even said you could add one for creative work by artists. A lot of contemporary art works with appropriation. I find some types of appropriation are on the good side of the fence, maybe not what Jeff Koons would do, but other kinds of appropriation. Actually, each week I have s

Industry committee  Yes, and remember that CCH is about lawyers not wanting to pay for photocopies. It's not about creative fair use or fair dealing, so that's one thing. If you want to rewrite the Copyright Act, the test would be to give it to a second-year student in a law faculty just to see wha

Industry committee  I didn't want to repeat what the critics said—

Industry committee  —but you heard here about the Copyright Board, that it's too slow and doesn't pay enough. A lot of people—

Industry committee  Yes, that's it.

Industry committee  The prioritization is to prioritize. The law was meant for authors, and you should still put the authors at the centre of the law, because everybody has invited themselves into the copyright law, all kinds of users, specific users and so on. It's not really a copyright law anymor

Industry committee  I'll pass.

Industry committee  It's a hypothesis. If you work with that second hypothesis, it would be a kind of opt-in situation. However, then you'd have to have all the collectives agreeing with that, because it might be something funny in terms of the Bern Convention.

Industry committee  There are a lot of things to say. What I was trying to say is that democratization of creation is a great thing. Your neighbour is making art, and that's fantastic, but the problem is that your neighbour is now in competition with professional artists who want to make a living wi

Industry committee  Thank you. Good afternoon, and thank you for the opportunity to speak to you today about copyright. With 186 witnesses having appeared before this committee, I hope everything has not been said. I am the director of the art school of Laval University in Quebec City, and was pre