From my perspective, the problem with enforcement is that it takes forever. If you get into a dispute, in the way that SOCAN and other collectives have, on issues such as online liability and whatnot.... I was there in 1995 when SOCAN was the first society, the first collective, to file a tariff for Internet uses of music. We were told at the time that we were crazy and that it was way too early to do so, but we thought, “You know what? We think it's going to take awhile for this to get sorted out.” We're still fighting, and we're still in the courts over whether or not we need to pay money back for ring tones that were paid for. Do you remember ring tones? Do you remember what those are? We're fighting over $13 million, being asked to pay back money that we received in 2006, because it's not clear whether we can keep it or not.
My suggestion there on enforcement is that, especially when it comes to a society like SOCAN, maybe what we need, in fact, is more flexibility to negotiate our own agreements, to have our own private discussions, and to rely on the Copyright Board only when we feel it's absolutely necessary, as opposed to being subjected to do it on a mandatory basis. But that's yet another discussion.