Bill C-11 committee  You've stated it exactly correctly, and this has been true for some time. I happen to know, because I've certainly been copied on the correspondence, that it's one of the reasons that the collecting societies in Europe have been complaining rather bitterly to the chief negotiat

Bill C-11 committee  That's right.

Bill C-11 committee  That the right is codified will not guarantee that it is effectively used. The absence of codification of a right will certainly muddy the waters and make it much more difficult for those who legitimately have the right to assert it for both moral purposes and revenue purposes, a

Bill C-11 committee  It's good to see you.

Bill C-11 committee  It's for film on all platforms. It's audiovisual work, yes.

Bill C-11 committee  Yes. The most obvious example would be the European community, where effectively and as a matter of policy all members of the community will identify. They may identify a number of creators who may claim authorship of an audiovisual work, but a director is identified in every cas

Bill C-11 committee  It is negotiated. The industry takes account of authors' rights. We do negotiate routinely. It may mean more than 100% of the original fee for a director in Canada to sell the use of this copyright. In the United States, it could be up to 300% of the original fee, so it's a very

Bill C-11 committee  In a couple of quick words, yes. In the general sense, the issues are the revenues that attach to the sites that aggregate mashups, and then people go there. Of course they then become monetizable. Their participation is monetizable; ads appear, and that sort of thing. The other

Bill C-11 committee  I think piracy has a vampire effect on revenues for creators and producers of creative work. Perhaps you'll allow me, Mr. McColeman, to make use of the opportunity to just respond a little to my colleague Mr. Stohn. The section of the standard agreement called “Reservation of

Bill C-11 committee  Well, both moral rights and economic rights are helped by directors, certainly. Typically, what happens is that in the remuneration package directors in Canada sign, they waive the moral rights and sell the use of copyright, if I can put it that way, for purposes of rebroadcast.

Bill C-11 committee  It's held until waived, but it's not waived for money.

Bill C-11 committee  Could I have a hot-pursuit answer on that?

Bill C-11 committee  Well, in 30 seconds, then, all I'll say is this: certainly the producer's proprietorial interest in the product that is generated in the cultural industry is obviously terribly important, but it's important to notice also that Mr. Stohn is a member of an organization that negotia

Bill C-11 committee  I'll do both things. I think you're asking how authorship is defined in legislation.

Bill C-11 committee  What brings us here and drives the presentation we're giving today is that when it comes to audiovisual works, there is a gap in Bill C-11 that's easily corrected—a very narrow set of words that doesn't encroach on any of the other issues that dog this package of amendments, so I