Certainly, on the provisions regarding technical protection measures, DRMs, we're glad to see Canada becoming on the verge of compliance with the WIPO treaties, but to be honest with you, digital rights management matters very little in practice to the music business. Virtually no music products today are covered by them, though it might happen in the future. Protecting them is a good idea.
To be quite honest, the small amount of good that the bill might do in that regard is more than outweighed by the range of exemptions, not just the exemption that would attack vital income for songwriters and publishers today in the ephemeral exception, but all of the other exemptions that carve out compensation and allow use.
We're all in favour of use, and that's what we're here for, to give access to works, but the fact is that the bill would eliminate compensation. That strikes us as unfair. There's not that much in the bill that's good for us.