Generally speaking, we welcome more use of music. The more music is being listened to and enjoyed, the better for us, for our members, our creators, our publishers, our record labels.
The only thing we want the committee and Parliament to keep in mind is that the expanded use that should be easy for consumers has value. We just want our creators, the companies that we represent—not us, the collectives are not important—to benefit from that increased value in a way that is commensurate with the enjoyment it is creating for Canadians, and the fact that businesses can be built or expanded based on those technologies that bring more music in a more ubiquitous way to Canadians.