They're important to a certain part of the sector in particular. I know, from having done business with them in the past, that they're very important for the companies that are represented by CRIA, for example. Mr. Anderson has been asking for this right since the WIPO treaty was signed in 1997, so I know it's an important component of the cultural sector.
It is not necessarily.... I'm not an expert there. I will defer to my colleagues here, for example, and musicians, as to whether the right of distribution is.... The right of distribution is important to individual members whose case I'm pleading today only if they have the instruments to have them applied, and that is through their collectives.
While I will not say that say this bill is an attack on collectives--because I don't give intentions to anybody--certainly the casualty will be there nonetheless. It is undermining the collective system, and it's not proposing something that works for individual artists, as we've heard.