Canadian Heritage committee  Copyright goes along with education. Copyright is a very abstract concept to somebody who was never involved in the art or in the show business environment. I am the only one to do that in my family and after 35 years with the same woman, none of my brothers-in-law understand my

Canadian Heritage committee  Absolutely.

Canadian Heritage committee  Let's talk clearly about the beast. Mr. Harper created some trauma about seven or eight years ago when the study on Bill C-32 began. He said he would never impose a new tax on Canadians. We told him that this was not a tax, but a tariff, which was much smaller than the amounts d

Canadian Heritage committee  If that's okay with you, I will first speak in French. I have nothing against talking about Ticketmaster. That company follows a model we would like to refer to. They are not shy about doing things legally. They collect a fee on tickets they issue to us for concerts and plays. T

Canadian Heritage committee  I will let Mr. Tetreault speak on my behalf, or Luc, maybe, will have ideas.

Canadian Heritage committee  As I briefly said earlier, we have to educate young people. They are like sponges. They will accept the model proposed to them without questioning it. We cannot go to high schools and tell the students that what they have been doing for 10 years is wrong. They should be accustom

Canadian Heritage committee  I will talk about an issue I went over quickly in my presentation—education. Last weekend, I was told about how young children aged 12 to 15 months behave with an iPad. They get the thing. I mean, after five minutes they know what to do. As an extension of that, when they're i

Canadian Heritage committee  Good afternoon, everybody. I would like to thank the committee for having us here today. If you don't mind I will switch to French, which is my mother tongue, and depending on how I felt when I woke up this morning, it might be a little shaky. Songwriters or composers generally

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes, but I will exceed my eight minutes.

Canadian Heritage committee  Last year, MUSICACTION provided $400,000 in direct funding for all of French-speaking Canada. That money was used to compensate 380 songwriters. We can all count, and we understand perfectly well that average support of just over $1,000 a year per songwriter is far from being suf