International treaties in the digital field were signed around the world in 1996. Just think of the WIPO Copyright Treaty and the WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty. The European countries began to introduce these elements into their statutes. The European Commission did it first, and then the countries did the same in 1997 and 1998.
No amendments were made to the Copyright Act from 1997 to 2012 because of the political situation in Canada. Consequently, we are several years behind in integrating those changes, which have been ratified around the world. It's no one's fault; it's the situation that has occurred.
European countries are slightly ahead of us in what they're seeing in their market. The directives they'll be introducing address the entire concept of the responsibility of certain intermediaries. In many countries, those intermediaries have, for all kinds of reasons, enjoyed an exception that they may have been granted as a result of pressure exercised around the world. Today, we see that there are some problems. We talk about the GAFAs, for example. Countries are in the process of restricting or limiting these exceptions so that, under the acts that are passed, players that use intellectual property will have responsibilities, precisely in order to eliminate this value gap. What are we talking about? In particular, we're talking about user-generated content and network intermediaries.