Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. Good morning, everyone. I'm going to delve right into the matter insofar as the points I'd like to leave you with today go. They are in connection with one of the major questions you're asking, which is about the impact of new technologies on

Canadian Heritage committee  We fight very hard for our members, in our case authors, composers, and publishers as well, but it's nothing new. When I say we fight hard, in this case it's on complex legal issues. Back in the 1990s we had to go to the courts to ensure that our members were paid for the use o

Canadian Heritage committee  Mr. Falk, if I may, given your preliminary remarks, I might note that in 1980 I was a member of the Forum for Young Canadians as well. I'm glad to hear that the organization and the project have continued these many years later.

Canadian Heritage committee  You need very good publishers.

Canadian Heritage committee  It goes without saying that the available funds—and we hope they will continue to be available—are important for songwriters, composers and publishers. I am echoing Mr. Ferneyhough's comments. He said earlier that, unfortunately, a major portion of that funding was actually dedic

Canadian Heritage committee  Since I was the one who brought up the three-step test, I can perhaps respond to that part of your question. To provide you with some context, the Berne Convention includes a clause on that three-step test. As far as exceptions go, the test is applied under the Berne Convention

Canadian Heritage committee  I said the least regulated, but I should have instead began by saying that we have the most exceptions. Since our legislation as such does not contain that three-step test....

Canadian Heritage committee  In Europe, the test and the convention's provisions automatically apply to the legislation of a number of countries. That's not the case in Canada.

Canadian Heritage committee  Like us, the U.S. is currently looking to adopt in its legislation....

Canadian Heritage committee  If I could add to that, compounding the difficulty is that we have the advent of these new services, which are a new source of music for consumers. One can see some positives in that. On the other hand, what is also happening—and in the case of SOCAN, this is quite noticeable—is

Canadian Heritage committee  It's very much a two-edged sword for some of the reasons I've just explained. In the short term, the greatest concern is whether, if you don't start getting from the outset, in the SOCAN case, reasonable tariffs and manage to negotiate reasonable rates, you ever get to catch up a

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you, Mrs. Côté. Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. A second aspect that the committee should examine is the loophole created by subsection 32.2(3) of the Copyright Act, which provides for an exception for so-called charitable organizations that use music "in furtherance

Canadian Heritage committee  I certainly wouldn't want to target the festival in particular because I don't know its situation, but some festivals don't pay us. I'd like to take it for granted that that one pays us, but some don't pay us. What especially troubles us here are the very big or enormous festival

Canadian Heritage committee  I can play Spotify's repertoire for you in five seconds.

Canadian Heritage committee  I think it's an interesting point that you raise. If the copies of those CDs and the embedding of the music in those CDs are made in Canada, and the CDs happen to have music from Sam Cooke, Jim Reeves, and Otis Redding, then there's a good chance that there wouldn't be any royalt