Evidence of meeting #122 for Industry, Science and Technology in the 42nd Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was music.
A recording is available from Parliament.
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Liberal
Frank Baylis Liberal Pierrefonds—Dollard, QC
Then with respect to radio, you're saying everybody has been given this great exemption, “Listen, the first $1.25 million of income you got from advertising you don't need to pay any royalties on that.”
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President and Chief Executive Officer, Music Canada
Right. We're saying, “Start paying.”
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Director, Performers' Rights Society and Recording Artists' Collecting Society, Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists (ACTRA)
No. That's only for performers and label.
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President and Chief Executive Officer, Music Canada
It's just for performers and label.
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Director, Performers' Rights Society and Recording Artists' Collecting Society, Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists (ACTRA)
Again, performers and labels are the ones that are subject—
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Liberal
Frank Baylis Liberal Pierrefonds—Dollard, QC
The exemption of the $1.25 million is just the performers and the label as well.
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Director, Performers' Rights Society and Recording Artists' Collecting Society, Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists (ACTRA)
Correct.
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Liberal
Frank Baylis Liberal Pierrefonds—Dollard, QC
Even in that case the writer and the publisher are still covered.
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Liberal
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President and Chief Executive Officer, Music Canada
It's because the right that belongs to the performer and the label was a new right that was created in 1997 by the Government of Canada. It's called the neighbouring rights. They created that new right to address this problem.
The example I give is my wife's in a band called Cowboy Junkies and she sang a very famous version of Lou Reed's song Sweet Jane. The problem was that Lou got paid all the money for Margo's version. Margo didn't get a nickel because she had no right in that performance.
5:05 p.m.
Liberal
Frank Baylis Liberal Pierrefonds—Dollard, QC
As a solution, what you would like us to do is, first of all, we have the radio, $1.25 million, so that would take that off, but even if that was taken away, it still would not be fair to the performer on the radio or it would then?
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President and Chief Executive Officer, Music Canada
It would then. If we get rid of the exception—
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Liberal
Frank Baylis Liberal Pierrefonds—Dollard, QC
Now, if we come to television and film, you're saying that there is this non-capture for payment—
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President and Chief Executive Officer, Music Canada
The performer and the label.
