Thank you, Ms. Fry. The first thing, working backwards, is that the CRTC just yesterday announced that they are going to hold hearings to review new media. ACTRA has been asking them to do that since about 1999. Previous presidents, and Richard Hardacre, have all been before the CRTC and have repeatedly asked for a review of new media. And why would we want to do that? Because we need some regulation to ensure that there will be Canadian content for Canadians to see on the new media.
On your question about copyright, it's very complex. The last revision of the Copyright Act was in 1997, so we're just about due. They come along about every 10 years. We're just about due for one. There was a bill under the Martin government, Bill C-60. It offered up some new rights for performers, but you would be shocked to know that performers have no intellectual rights to their recorded performances on television and in movies. They have no way of pursuing those rights. They have no way of enforcing any kind of piracy of those rights. And that has to change. That's one of the things. And the government has promised to do that since the early 1990s.
Your final question was.... Oh, there was the distribution of digital media. You know, if any of us here knew exactly how you would distribute, we would be out on the stock exchange. We'd be putting out our IPOs. You can see that the record industry has struggled with this for years, and the film and television industry will.
Everybody is learning as they go along. There are all kinds of ways. There are technical ways, like streaming as opposed to downloading. Streaming allows you to, in essence, watch television or movies or video programs on the Internet. There's Internet TV. Downloading allows you to obtain a copy. But there are some intellectual property rights that are invoked in either of those two methods. There are tethered downloads, like rentals, where you can pull it back after you've actually received the copy, so it's time limited. You'd have access to a television program or a movie for a couple of days or even for a couple of hours.
So there are all kinds of models out there, and as Richard said, it's very complex. Everybody is very concerned about how they would go about doing it to ensure that they would get some kind of return.