Industry committee  I haven't given them permission to collect on my behalf, but they do it nonetheless.

Industry committee  In my experience, it does, yes. Academic publication suffers from an underlying kind of absurdity. Most of the studies are funded by the the public. They pay our salaries. They pay the grants that we get to do those studies. We do all the work. Then, because of the way the co

Industry committee  I'm a copyright holder. Some of my works are used by Access Copyright. They are happy to license them, and they don't have the right to do that.

Industry committee  Also, they're happy to collect money for that.

Industry committee  Can I sue them? I may have other things to do with my life.

Industry committee  Do you mean decided cases?

Industry committee  No. They have been doing that. They still do that. They authorize the use of works that aren't theirs.

Industry committee  I have evidence that they do that, and in my opinion, this constitutes copyright infringement. The Copyright Board agreed that—

Industry committee  Yes. When you think of whether site blocking is effective, you have to think, effective in what? One question is whether it's effective in blocking those sites. It might be, even though people can work around that. That's one type of effectiveness. However, if the question is whe

Industry committee  If you want to stop piracy, the question is, what causes piracy? As I wrote in my report with respect to the CRTC, and I blogged about it, we don't have a piracy problem; we have a competition problem. We have a highly concentrated telecom market. We have incumbents that control

Industry committee  That's exactly the study—

Industry committee  That's exactly the study I was referring to.

Industry committee  I'm concerned about what's going to be put into the public interest.

Industry committee  Some of the most innovative countries, such as the United States, have the open and flexible fair use principle that Mr. Sookman is strongly opposed to. Also, they don't have site blocking, which he advocates for. I think you should be aware of that.

Industry committee  Are you asking about my recommendations?