Industry committee  The Copyright Board, as I said, should be more intrusive. They should force these collectives and parties to be more transparent about their internal operations and about how much money is actually getting through to the creators. They should not allow a collective or a corporati

Industry committee  Bryan Adams, I believe, actually suggested moving the reversionary right back to 25 years after the contract was signed. He had Professor Daniel Gervais, formerly of the University of Ottawa—quite a brilliant guy, who is now at Vanderbilt—say that should be given serious consider

Industry committee  Journalists should be well paid. They do very important work. If somebody writes for the Toronto Star, they're getting paid a salary. Just because it shows up on the Internet doesn't mean they should get paid again.

Industry committee  There's an old song. I won't try to sing it. The fundamental things apply as time goes by. It's in Casablanca. Some things just don't change, even since the first copyright act in 1709. Certain principles don't change very much, and they certainly don't change very quickly. As I

Industry committee  Well, you're free to look.

Industry committee  In fact, I'll send you material through the clerk. They have a provision there, section 115A, that deals with site blocking and it's fairly well balanced. I looked at it in detail and there is some recent case law on it. I'm trying to remember the name of the case. Again, I'll

Industry committee  And the U.K. doesn't have a specific provision, but they have some—I looked at it quickly—reasonably sensible jurisprudence.

Industry committee  Yes, I enthusiastically disagree with Professor Boyer here. Fair dealing is user rights. The Supreme Court of Canada said that very eloquently and very famously in the 2004 CCH case. They are users rights as much as the right to be paid is a creator right. They are equal and they

Industry committee  There are potential big antitrust issues with some of the gigantic, multinational, billion-dollar publishers that impose these conditions, but I suggested a solution yesterday that got some good feedback on the Internet, for what that's worth. The solution came not from me but

Industry committee  The commissioner of competition has for a very long time had the ability to weigh in on these issues at the Copyright Board. They've never even opened a file or lifted a finger to do that. They should be encouraged, if not told, by somebody to do that. They're independent, so it'

Industry committee  I'll start on that one. It's very controversial. It's very maximalist, as we say. There's no need for a snippet tax or a Google tax, or whatever you call it. There's no need to put filters on what can be uploaded. This could be, to use an overworked phrase, the end of the Interne

Industry committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Good afternoon, members. I'm also here for my third time this week. As a former prime minister said, I guess that gives me a three-peat. I won't repeat what I said at the Senate banking committee and yesterday at the heritage committee, but I will repea

Canadian Heritage committee  I actually will be talking about this more tomorrow at the other committee, but Ms. Zagar made as good a case, I suppose, as can be made on this. The Equustek decision was extremely problematic but it does show that the existing law does work. It works maybe even too well in the

Canadian Heritage committee  Well, I was not speaking on behalf of any particular sector, and I should have indicated, of course, that I'm speaking in my personal capacity. I guess my remarks were focused on the educational sector, as I think about it now. That was not intentional. I did mention the music se

Canadian Heritage committee  I only need a small fraction of time. I thought my friends had more time. They're asking for a $40-million per year taxpayer handout until an iPhone tax can be implemented, not to mention a recent proposal that would subject broadband data to a copyright tax. It's more than ti