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Canadian Heritage committee Mr. Nantel, when new digital services pay royalties, rates will clearly have an impact on rights holders' revenues. With regard to online services, everyone knows that the Copyright Board of Canada last year issued a decision that we found very disappointing. So we're stepping u
June 5th, 2018Committee meeting
Gilles Daigle
Canadian Heritage committee In any case, we're talking about billions of dollars, but that money doesn't go into the pockets of rights holders. It seems to me something must be done about the value gap. If there are applicable rates at the outset, and those rates are declining, that's definitely a very bad
June 5th, 2018Committee meeting
Gilles Daigle
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
June 5th, 2018Committee meeting
Gilles Daigle
Canadian Heritage committee I can play Spotify's repertoire for you in five seconds.
June 5th, 2018Committee meeting
Gilles Daigle
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
June 5th, 2018Committee meeting
Gilles Daigle
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
June 5th, 2018Committee meeting
Gilles Daigle
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
March 27th, 2014Committee meeting
Gilles Daigle
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
March 27th, 2014Committee meeting
Gilles Daigle
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
March 27th, 2014Committee meeting
Gilles Daigle
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....
March 27th, 2014Committee meeting
Gilles Daigle
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.
March 27th, 2014Committee meeting
Gilles Daigle
Canadian Heritage committee Like us, the U.S. is currently looking to adopt in its legislation....
March 27th, 2014Committee meeting
Gilles Daigle
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
March 27th, 2014Committee meeting
Gilles Daigle
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.
March 27th, 2014Committee meeting
Gilles Daigle
Canadian Heritage committee You need very good publishers.
March 27th, 2014Committee meeting
Gilles Daigle