At the time a piece of music is composed, under the Copyright Act in Canada, the composer is the sole owner of that copyright.
When we negotiate our deals with independent producers, there is an imbalance of power—we have to face it here—and in that negotiation, they are frequently asking us to assign the copyright to them, or a portion of it. That effectively means that a portion of the downstream revenue, the royalties that would come to us through SOCAN—formerly SODRAC—would then be diverted to the producer or shared in some way.