Actually, as a collective, we try as much as possible to ensure that the royalties collected for the use of performers' work do not decrease over time. Unfortunately, many exceptions were introduced in the Copyright Act when it was modernized in 2012, and that certainly makes things difficult. We are seeing a significant drop in royalties.
I was talking about private copying, for example. At the height of private copying, the royalties were over 50% of the Canadian royalties Artisti could distribute to artists. Last year, only 7% of Canada's royalties came from private copying.
We see that the act has not kept pace and that it would be appropriate to modernize it further so that it can be extended to devices.
I could talk about a lot of other exceptions that have been introduced in the act.
Unfortunately, this unfavourably draws the attention of foreign countries to Canada. As recently as May 2017, the Association littéraire et artistique internationale (ALAI) made a recommendation or expressed a desire to the Canadian government to limit free exceptions. In fact, if exceptions are introduced in the act, they should at least come with compensation.