Finance committee  Absolutely. The international norm now is life-plus-70. It has been for a long time, so all of Canada's major trading partners have been at life-plus-70 for a very long time. Canadian rights holders are at a disadvantage when in Canada the term of protection is shorter than what

Finance committee  Sure, it extends the time under which a creator and the estate of the creator, as well as the producers of the works, will be able to monetize and get return on their investment. This is absolutely critical to ensuring that there is continued investment in creative works.

Finance committee  Unfortunately, you can't have regulations under that provision. It requires a legislative amendment to be done. That is the only way to set this straight.

Finance committee  No, there is no relation to that scenario.

Finance committee  The 2012 Copyright Modernization Act included quite a few amendments. It was a massive bill. Specifically to “fair dealing”, education was added to fair dealing so that uses can be made of works for educational purposes as long as they are fair. The intent of the change was nev

Finance committee  Thank you for the opportunity to appear before you. Before beginning, I would like to acknowledge that I am speaking from the traditional territory of many nations—including the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishinabe, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat peoples—wh

Canadian Heritage committee  No worries. I answer to all of the different pronunciations.

Canadian Heritage committee  Roanie Levy.

Canadian Heritage committee  We have not had any results yet. We hope that this committee will help us. When the Copyright Act gets amended for the Canada—United States—Mexico Agreement, we expect recommendations 18 to 21 from the committee's report to also be added. We expect the issue to be resolved once

Canadian Heritage committee  The one thing that hasn't been said is that the writing and publishing sector is not against fair dealing for education. That is not what we are against, and that is not what we're asking. We're not asking for fair dealing for education to be removed; we are asking for it to be p

Canadian Heritage committee  One thing that makes a big difference between fair use and fair dealing is that the courts in the U.S. have said that there are no bright-line rules, so you cannot come up with guidelines the way the education sector has done here and say you can copy up to 10%, a chapter, etc.,

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes. That's another interesting difference. In the U.S., the use of an unpublished work, under fair dealing, tends to be not fair, whereas it's the opposite in Canada. That all just points to the fact that the concept of fairness is very vague and is always changing. Another se

Canadian Heritage committee  What we hear and what we've heard also before the court in the York case is that people already pay for it or that what they use is offered in open access licences and therefore they don't need to pay for it, or that the amount they use is so little that it is fair. It's done und

Canadian Heritage committee  There are two issues before the court right now. The first issue is whether or not the copying guidelines that York University has, which are the same as the rest of the education sector, are fair. In other words, are they legal? Do they comply with the Copyright Act as well as t

Canadian Heritage committee  That's right, because the interpretation of fair dealing will not turn it into a good law. It will still remain uncertain, and we will still be before the courts again for another 10 years. This has been going on long enough. The damage is not just the payments to the collectiv