That said, there are other ways of ensuring that performers receive a share of the revenue generated by other users of their music in the digital sector.
First, the exception under section 68.1 of the Copyright Act that exempts radio stations from paying fair compensation on the first $1.25 million in annual revenues could be repealed. Ian MacKay spoke briefly to this earlier.
Furthermore, under the private copying regime royalties could be collected on the sale of any device or blank audio recording media. We have proposed this in the past and those proposals are still current and so we are repeating them before you today. In fact we would recommend that a committee be struck in order to examine the modernization of the private copying regime.
Finally, we would like to emphasize the fact that music allows Internet service providers, music listening device manufacturers and global music services to make money and generate revenue but performers are the ones who are left out of the payment chain. Therefore, we would like government measures to be taken to insure that these service providers, website operators and device manufacturers share a part of the income that they earn from the use of that music with the performers.