Industry committee  Mr. Hayes.

Industry committee  It's about competitiveness, as Mr. Boyer said.

Industry committee  In the last meeting of this committee, I asked about an exemption for reaction videos, for example, that allows for people, as you said, to just put up something with their reaction to it. Do you think there needs to be some carve-out for that type of activity?

Industry committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you to all our witnesses for your testimony here today and multiple testimonies at different committees. I'll start with Mr. Hayes. You gave in your opening comments the example of SOCAN, where someone is putting on a feature that they calculate to be $1,000 in royalties, SOCAN takes a different position and, therefore, it could be $4,500 if it's three times what it was.

Industry committee  In those types of cases, then, would it not be smarter to make a secondary regime? For example, rather than count the whole $1,500 as being where you take that, times three or times 10, depending. You say it's the difference between the amount that the proprietor had suggested and the value that SOCAN in this case would have said is the right amount, that $500.

Industry committee  There is a market power, or at least in this case, a monopoly power—

Industry committee  Mr. de Beer, you've been to a number of different committees, as some of the other witnesses have as well. By the way, all of that now is Crown copyright, so I hope you're okay with that. We own your ideas as a parliament. I'm just advising you of this.

Industry committee  As a side note, though, can you describe how fair use as it exists in the United States is superior to the fair dealing provision exceptions we have in Canada? I found your argument saying, if you're going to take the worst of a regime, you'd also better complement with some of the release valves or at least some of the best.

Industry committee  Thank you.

Industry committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. With regard to some of the comments Mr. Kee made earlier today about the difficulties of contextualizing, I guess through your Content ID filters into fair dealing, you referenced that it's very difficult for that system, so even though we create laws, the system itself is the one that's going to have to recognize and adapt.

Industry committee  How do you create that space when you have Googles and Facebooks that are dominating in their size and scope? I don't want to incriminate or anything, but that's one of the arguments I hear: that they have become so big that no one can compete with them.

Industry committee  I haven't heard of Dailymotion, but when you give one example, and then say “etc., etc.”, are there other ones?

Industry committee  Okay. That's fair. Mr. Price, my line of questioning has been mainly towards some of the other witnesses. My first question is very tough: Old Pixies or new Pixies?

Industry committee  You and I are in the same.... I have to say that. I'm pleased to hear that. We've heard at this committee, and it was in one of the analyst's reports, that one of the main complaints is that Spotify will contract directly with the money for labels to access catalogues, and then none of that money goes back to artists.

Industry committee  Okay. Thank you.