Canadian Heritage committee  There seems to have been a wide perception that since 2012, educational institutions have stopped paying for content. This is entirely untrue. Educational institutions are paying. They have not reduced the amount of money that they spend on purchasing licensed content. They have,

Canadian Heritage committee  There are many problems in that industry, such as competition and probably a lot of other issues, but what determines the amount of compensation.... When the University of Toronto signs a licensing agreement with Oxford University Press or Elsevier, they pay a lot of money for t

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes. You're referring to my tweet. The baseline in our democratic society is freedom; it's a principle of our liberal society. People are free to do whatever they like, unless there is valid law that prevents them from doing that. Some freedoms are also constitutionally entrench

Canadian Heritage committee  Let me explain. When we give someone an exclusive right over a work, that means we prevent other people from doing certain things with that work. If Matt has copyright in a work and I want to build on that work, copyright creates some limitation of my ability to use Matt's work i

Canadian Heritage committee  You'd have to repeat the last—

Canadian Heritage committee  I would not agree that creators are being robbed by universities. Copyright has always been a limited right; it's not an absolute right to control every aspect of every use of a work. It has always been a limited right that gives the owners of copyright certain limited rights. It

Canadian Heritage committee  Yesterday I appeared before the INDU committee, and that was the focus of my testimony there. I'm afraid that there has been a lot of misinformation, and I'd love to spend more time with Matt and Monia, maybe later, because I suspect—at the risk of being condescending—that they

Canadian Heritage committee  One thing is that I'm very skeptical about the copyright avenue and even more skeptical about collective licensing. I could spend hours on that.

Canadian Heritage committee  There is a huge benefit to the public from creativity. Some of it can go through the market; corporate plays some role in it. That's fine; we already have that. In Canada, we do a great job at having a lot of funding opportunities from the federal government and the provinces,

Canadian Heritage committee  I'm looking at using incentives, subsidies or indirectly.... If, for example, you increase teaching opportunities or many other things, you can increase employment for creators in ways that are supplementary or related to their creative works.

Canadian Heritage committee  As I said, I think we have to be very modest in our belief that copyright is the tool to ensure adequate remuneration for artists. We have tried it for 300 years. We keep trying again and again, and still we're not there yet. When you start thinking about it systematically, maybe

Canadian Heritage committee  There isn't much we can do about this inherent supply. We could do something, but I would not advise to do it this way. However, there are certain things we could do to reduce the concentration on the producer side. I'd be happy to talk about that more. We could also improve so

Canadian Heritage committee  Good morning. My name is Ariel Katz. I'm a law professor at the University of Toronto, where I hold the innovation chair in electronic commerce. I'm very grateful for the opportunity to appear before you today. In my comments, I would like to focus on some of the ways in whic

Industry committee  For Access Copyright, if you go to their submissions and to their documents, they say that you can copy every published work, except specific works that appear on an exclusion list. In order for it to appear on an exclusion list, someone has to actively tell them, “Take me out.”

Industry committee  I think Mr. Azzaria made the point.