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Industry committee I would try to scale down the act by getting back to first principles. Focus on defining certain rights that are narrow in scope. Identify, for example, that if you're an author, somebody cannot make an identical or near-identical copy of your book and sell it. That's easy and m
December 3rd, 2018Committee meeting
Ariel Katz
Industry committee Yes.
December 3rd, 2018Committee meeting
Ariel Katz
Industry committee The criteria introduced in the bill are, by and large, a good idea. I have a problem with the public interest criterion, because that could mean anything. The main criterion there, that the tariffs be set to try to imitate as far as possible what would have been charged in a com
December 3rd, 2018Committee meeting
Ariel Katz
Industry committee South Africa basically has followed something that the United States and Israel have been doing for many years. I argue that it has also been the law in Canada for many years, even though we don't really know that this is the law. We don't have such magic words in the fair dealin
December 3rd, 2018Committee meeting
Ariel Katz
Industry committee Okay. There are 46,000 full-time academic authors employed by Canadian universities, and Access Copyright has only 12,000 writer members. U of T alone has more writer members than Access Copyright. In other words, the vast majority of works that you use in universities are not
December 3rd, 2018Committee meeting
Ariel Katz
Industry committee It has very little to do with copyright and very little to do with fair dealing.
December 3rd, 2018Committee meeting
Ariel Katz
Industry committee Good afternoon. 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 am very grateful for the opportunity to appear before you this afternoon. In my comments today, I would like to focus on dispelli
December 3rd, 2018Committee meeting
Ariel Katz