Industry committee  I have no direct knowledge of that study. I would say that we feel that the Copyright Act as it is today achieves the right balance. It is very easy to upset that balance. Obviously, you will probably always have one side that says they don't get enough and the other side that sa

Industry committee  I'll try to take them one at a time. For the first one, distribution of that money with the record labels, we had to do an analysis of the songs that we play on the radio in our industry to try to understand how that money is being distributed within Re:Sound organizations. It's

Industry committee  Oh no, actually, we're not saying “don't change this”. We're saying that maybe there's something that you should look into with that part of the issue. Even if you were changing the $100 on the first $1.25 million and making it more, it would end up there and that would flow out

Industry committee  Absolutely.

Industry committee  Obviously, there are things that can always be improved. As our colleague was saying, the length of time that the decision takes before it gets out and the retroactive portion that is applied on these tariffs that are usually always increasing is definitely an issue with regard t

Industry committee  I fully understand. Your point doesn't seem unreasonable, but again I would add that this is going to do very little to help the Canadian artists in our country because 60% of that money is going to flow out of the country.

Industry committee  Yes, I guess that's why I'm saying that I don't think it's unreasonable. I think it's reasonable, but what I'm saying is that even if you do that, and it's a reasonable increase, very little of the result of that increase will end up in the end with the Canadian artist.

Industry committee  They do not pay for sound recordings, because they are related rights. This does not mean that they do not pay any copyright fees. This is the comparative measure we have used for this tariff, knowing that they have asked you to repeal the exemption provided for in section 68.1 o

Industry committee  To my knowledge, there is no tension between the two sides, even if we look at the francophone market, where Cogeco radio is helping the community station in Montreal. I would say in the French market, I have not experienced or seen any tension there.

Industry committee  We pay the five tariffs, and then it's redistributed by the collective that oversees these tariffs. However, we pay the five tariffs all the time.

Industry committee  Yes. It's not one or the other tariff; we pay the five of them.

Industry committee  This is for a total of $91 million for private radio stations per year.

Industry committee  The appearance of Bryan Adams before you last week was really telling in terms of the different perspective you can get from an artist who's sitting before you and really speaks for himself. It's different from what you may hear from the record labels. Maybe looking additionall

Industry committee  If I may offer a different perspective on this very good question, even if we were changing this amount, the end result is that very little is going to make it to the Canadian artists. What you've heard is from the U.S. multinational labels that are coming before you. They seem t

Industry committee  It's the way they distribute this money going forward. There is a fifty-fifty split between the record labels and the performers. On top of that, when they start, they deduct about 14% for admin fees. In the graph we've provided, you see that international performers get 15% of t