Canadian Heritage committee  Our “grocery list” only has three points. First, I agree that we must absolutely lift the exemption in the CRTC regulations that the new media benefit from. It is unjust and unfair. Everyone must be subject to the same regulations. Second, we must extend the concept of private

Canadian Heritage committee  I will move aside for my colleague, Mr. Lefebvre.

Canadian Heritage committee  We would pick up on the last two points. In fact, we are also talking about revising section 31.1 of the Copyright Act and making Internet service providers accountable by eliminating the exemption they benefit from. I also come back to the royalties for private copying, which

Canadian Heritage committee  I don't believe it either.

Canadian Heritage committee  In the last five years, the situation has evolved extremely fast. We're in a completely different universe. I'm thinking of the disappearance of the CD or of the physical album. That's what's happening at full speed. The drop in CD sales is not offset by the revenue from music pl

Canadian Heritage committee  No. It's a rather limited fashion that is already starting to lose momentum, in fact.

Canadian Heritage committee  Good morning. My name is Luc Fortin and I am the president of the Guilde des musiciens et des musiciennes du Québec. I am joined by Éric Lefebvre, the secretary-treasurer of our association. We are pleased to appear before you this morning to share our comments on the remunerat

Canadian Heritage committee  I completely agree with you, Mr. Rheault. It's true that this is a matter of education, which could even start as early as elementary school and high school. People have to understand that music works do not fall from a tree. They are the product of labour that involves many peop

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes. Do you want to discuss the private copying levy for Internet broadcasting?

Canadian Heritage committee  The Beijing treaty talks about levies and fees for audiovisual recordings. That's an important aspect for which we are currently not getting paid.

Canadian Heritage committee  As Mr. Tetreault was saying, this treaty is one or two years old. Once all the countries sign the treaty, the copyright collectives that claim royalties will be able to distribute them. Those are very complex international processes. A number of collectives around the world have

Canadian Heritage committee  Mr. Rheault, who specializes in collectives, could tell you more about this than me. If private copying were to apply to all media, fees would be collected on the sale of those media. The fees would be redistributed to right holders through collectives. That's a well-known mecha

Canadian Heritage committee  I gave a good example of musicians being paid after the costs have been covered by sales. In other words, artists start getting paid once the production costs have been recovered through sales. Unfortunately, albums are not sold very much today. Major album sales are more rare.

Canadian Heritage committee  I completely agree with Mr. Rheault. Today's young people make up the future audience—12, 13 or 14-year-old music consumers. For them, there are no more CDs or cassettes. All they know is streaming or private copying on portable devices. Streaming is increasingly becoming the on

Canadian Heritage committee  I think we absolutely need to go back to the concept of private copying in a broad sense, so that any media that makes it possible to copy a musical work would be subject to a royalty regime. By “royalty”, I mean money that goes to artists. It's not a tax. In addition, Internet s