The Copyright Board is embedded in the act and has, arguably, four sets of tariffs that it sets through a tariff-setting process to set a value for copyrighted material.
There are those who are forced by obligation of the law to participate in a tariff-setting process. Those are Re:Sound and SOCAN.
There is an optional regime for other collectives, particularly those collectives that form around the distribution of a wide catalogue of copyrighted material. These are Copibec and Access Copyright in the educational spaces, as well as others.
There's a mechanical right, and then there's the private copying regime, which is for blank CDs.
The Copyright Board has a set of processes that are established in the act that essentially has people set out what they believe to be a tariff. People can then oppose that tariff. Then the Copyright Board goes to consolidate that process and determines whether a hearing is required. Over time, it hears witnesses and ultimately issues a decision.
There has been long-standing consensus among stakeholders and Parliament that the Copyright Board requires priority consideration. As a function of that, the government held technical consultations last August and September, with the intention of implementing reform in a timely manner.
Right now, we're in the midst of finalizing the review of the 60 submissions we received, to look at ways to expedite and create efficiency across the Copyright Board's tariff-setting process, in part because, right now, it can take as much as six to seven years to set a tariff. In the case of rapidly changing technologies.... For instance, the one that always gets raised is the Internet streaming case. It was a very long time, and the tariff started with some players in existence in Canada and ended with some of those players no longer here.
The goal of the Copyright Board reform is really to look at that process and try to ensure we get back to efficiency.
I don't know if you want to add to that.