Our members represent the musical works, meaning the songs that you hear on YouTube. They're directly affected by this. It's a major issue.
We don't understand why the musical works wouldn't be subject to the Broadcasting Act, while Spotify would be, simply because of technological process. In our view, this is completely incomprehensible. That's why subsection 2(2.1) and section 4.1 of Bill C-10 should be removed.
I'd like to address the technical aspect. We were told that it was hard to differentiate between professional and amateur content. This is completely false.
Our industry has been working with metadata, such as the international standard recording code, or ISRC, and international standard musical work code, or ISWC, for decades. YouTube already makes this distinction. It recommends music and makes playlists. This is the most widely used service. For the future of our industry, these works must be subject to the Broadcasting Act, just like other works.