Industry Committee on Dec. 12th, 2018

Evidence of meeting #144 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 ticketmaster.

A video is available from Parliament.

On the agenda

Statutory Review of the Copyright Act

MPs speaking

Dan Ruimy

Terry Sheehan

Brian Masse

Also speaking

Meera Nair Independent Scholar and Copyright Officer, Northern Alberta Institute of Technology, As an Individual

Carys Craig Associate Professor of Law, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, As an Individual

Patti-Anne Tarlton Chief Operating Officer, Ticketmaster Canada

Dan Albas Central Okanagan—Similkameen—Nicola, CPC

5:30 p.m.

Chief Operating Officer, Ticketmaster Canada

Patti-Anne Tarlton

You're asking a very specific question throughout a whole ecosystem of an industry. What I'm trying to articulate is that we are continuing to invest to get the monies into the hands of artists. We are on the side of the artists, trying to have those monies that are generated from their live performance accrue back to those artists.

5:30 p.m.

NDP

Brian Masse NDP Windsor West, ON

Why don't you just give them 100%, then? You got your cut at the beginning of the thing. If you're going to resell something, why wouldn't artists get the full increase indexed?

5:30 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Dan Ruimy

I'm sorry, Mr. Masse, but I have to jump in. We are over time.

Perhaps I can recommend that if we want to put questions, we can send them to Ms. Tarlton.

5:30 p.m.

NDP

Brian Masse NDP Windsor West, ON

Yes.

Thank you. I do appreciate....

5:30 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Dan Ruimy

Ms. Tarlton, we thank you very much for putting up with our antics today. We'll let you go now, because we have some committee business we need to take care of. Thank you very much.

We'll suspend and go in camera.

Thank you.

[Proceedings continue in camera]