Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I want to thank all the witnesses. It's very informative already and we're only just getting started, so I really appreciate this.
If I could begin, my questions are for CARFAC and Ms. Britski or Mr. Beveridge. I want to talk about the artist's resale right. You mentioned that as protecting Canadian artists, which would help those artists, creators and copyright holders. Making changes to the Copyright Act is in our mandate letter and is something that I'm a strong proponent of. Adopting the artist's right to resale requires little to no ongoing costs for our government.
Many people profit when artwork is resold, but not the artists. As some of our panellists—and I as a musician—will know, musicians and writers are paid for the growing popularity of their work over time through sales and copies, but this does not apply to visual art. The artist's resale right would allow visual artists to receive a small percentage when their work is resold.
Many countries are doing this already. Often, the full value of artwork is not seen on that first sale, so this would benefit visual artists, as you mentioned—in particular, Canada's indigenous artists—and this could be an addition to our Copyright Act.
I would start with you, Ms. Britski. Are there countries that already have artists' resale rights?