With your permission, I'd like to add a partial answer.
In our minds, the principle underlying all these objectives is to establish a Copyright Act that clearly defines the creator's right, that clearly defines the ins and outs of what rightly falls to the creator. Once that's established, the rest will flow from it.
Earlier Mr. Nantel discussed compensatory measures that you would like to see implemented. However, we don't need compensatory measures if artists are compensated based on the fair value of their rights and if all that can be negotiated at the bargaining table. Leverage is needed to bring the players to the bargaining table. That lever is the act. An authorization must be obtained, and the negotiation is completely undermined if there's the slightest doubt that the authorization can be obtained. Consider a situation in which the person states at the start of the negotiations:
“I'm not even sure if I need to pay you. I may do so out of political reasons, but.... Well, let's talk.”
At that point, you immediately know that the value has fallen by half.
They give you the sense that you have no choice.
In my opinion and that of the Society for Reproduction Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers in Canada, authors and creators should have the freedom to negotiate an agreement respecting their works in the conditions they wish and not be prevented from negotiating such an agreement because they are subject to an exception provided for in this act.