We have in place in Canada, the Musicians' Rights Organization of Canada. This organization collects money from broadcasters that they pay when they broadcast, and their goal is to distribute this money to the performers. There are organizations like this in countries across the world. They are supposed to share the money and share the resources and make sure that the artists are paid. There has been a reluctance, mainly of European countries, to even give the money to Canada. They just hold onto the money, making technical claims that we don't have proper distribution methods. That's been a problem, but our methods are improving.
MROC collects data from broadcasters so they know all the music that has been broadcast. Unfortunately, it's up to the musicians to actually ask for the payment. There isn't an automatic mechanism that says, “When we play this music, the money goes to these particular musicians.” It's up to the musicians to actually go to MROC and make the claim. They have to list every single recording, every single track they were on, as well as all the musicians who were on all those other tracks. That's a daunting experience for many musicians. If you have a small, compact band, it's easy to do, but that's very rarely the case.
So we have those challenges of getting the money that's owed to us from other countries. That's where the WIPO Beijing treaty would play a big role. It would put a lot of pressure on those countries that are holding money to release our money to us.