Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  It's a complicated question for a creator to answer. Obviously the three-step test could be adopted. There is vagueness in that language as well. At least it gives the creator community the language in the courts to understand that remuneration is a right that has not been given

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  Sometimes the definitions of non-commercial and commercial sites or entities are very vague in the bill. YouTube makes a lot of money by having people visit their site to consume content.

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  Yes. I got an e-mail from someone who said to check something out, so I went to YouTube. I had written a theme song for a kids' show, and there were more than many versions of little kids and teenagers performing this work on YouTube. The parents had posted it and the kids had po

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  There is some within the collectives, but please understand that it is our money. It's not the collectives that are making money. They collect for us, administer our rights, and distribute our rights. SOCAN runs extremely efficiently. The numbers are public to the percentage of t

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  I also think it's important that you understand that with those years of litigation, you could lose a generation of composers, artists, emerging artists, who will not be able to exist. They'll become hobbyists, while the lawyers, the politicians, and everybody will be making a lo

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  I'm sorry. I'm not positive on your question. I do believe that the wrong people were sued. I don't want to sue the consumer. I don't want to sue the mother or the grandmother, or people like that, but there is--

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  Agreed. I'd like to thank Alain, actually, for pointing out that most of us in the sector are engaged in small business. The idea of not getting remuneration for our works would hurt the marketplace, because we wouldn't exist. And if we don't exist and there's no inventory, ther

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  We won't be able to afford the litigation. It's pretty simple. If a creator wants to put out a piece of work for promotional purposes or do anything they want, they have the right to do that, but there must be some sort of teeth somewhere to protect their works so they can get pa

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  Thank you, Bill, and good morning to everybody. I earn my living solely as a creator. I'm a musician and a screen composer. Like the vast majority of my colleagues, I'm not a big star, I'm not a household name, I have no T-shirts to sell, nobody pays big ticket prices to see me,