Canadian Heritage committee  Yes, even when you're in the top 10 it's virtually impossible. There are a couple of great articles written by artists who explain that as big artists they would make a decent living; maybe collectively for the whole band they would bring in $250,000 for the year to be split am

Canadian Heritage committee  I agree. As the dollars decrease, we need to be doing these deals faster. There is a lot of negotiation, but much of this happens through the Copyright Board. It's important that the Copyright Board move a little faster. We have a thing called the private copying levy, which wa

Canadian Heritage committee  It's devastating. The way the songwriter is paid, with SOCAN anyway, is from the performance, and so at radio you get x number of dollars or cents from each play. It can be substantial if you get to a certain number of plays and rotation and what have you. You used to be able to

Canadian Heritage committee  As the music publishing group, we currently receive $625,000 that's supposed to be spread over 65 various companies that can apply for funding. There is one record company in Toronto that receives the exact same amount that all of the publishers do. I think it's an unfair balance

Canadian Heritage committee  It's no different from any other time. They have to have some skill. They have to be born lucky to have the ability to write a song and to craft a great song. I talk often on music publishing panels across the country. I always say to the people, whether they are in a band or w

Canadian Heritage committee  The difference between a publishing company and a record company?

Canadian Heritage committee  The traditional role of a record company is to make the recordings, release the masters, get the finished song, the finished product, to the general public, whether that be on a record, or sending it to radio, or what have you. They do the marketing, the distribution, that sort o

Canadian Heritage committee  It's a role we've taken on more over the last 10 years or so. A lot of times we will find the artist early. I can give you an example of an artist named Lights, who you may or may not know. She was developed for over seven years, and finally was able to get to the record buying p

Canadian Heritage committee  Thanks, Elizabeth. The CMPA believes that program funding should at the very least stay at the current level of $25 million. We also believe that the amount of money to support music publishing should be increased, as current funding programs focus almost exclusively on supporti