Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  Certainly, Mr. McTeague. We support the right of broadcasters to be paid for the use of their work. It seems to make sense. We want to be paid for the use of ours. But it's a rather stark contrast, as you say. Broadcasters filed a tariff with the Copyright Board a few years ago

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  Absolutely.

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  That's exactly what it would do.

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  Well, I'm struck that there are a lot of other forces facing broadcasters today. There's competition from other media. There's competition from listening to music on the Internet. There are the exigencies of operating in small markets. There's competition coming from larger citie

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  If I could, Mr. Angus, let me just add one point. This doesn't happen in a vacuum. Broadcasters pay good money for the computers. They pay good money for the very complicated software used to program, operate, and manage radio stations. They pay good money to send their staff on

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  They are paying for two different things, first of all. The right to perform or communicate the work is one right; the right to reproduce it is another. That has been long, long established in our copyright law. But let's talk about the copies they make. When broadcasters recei

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  First of all, describing the royalties that are paid as “punishment for innovation” is an interesting way of looking at it. We obviously disagree. Broadcasters are taking advantage of remarkable technology that has developed in the last few years that enables them to save a gre

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  Certainly, on the provisions regarding technical protection measures, DRMs, we're glad to see Canada becoming on the verge of compliance with the WIPO treaties, but to be honest with you, digital rights management matters very little in practice to the music business. Virtually n

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  I'd say, on balance, that is true.

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  Thank you, and good morning. My name is David Basskin. I'm the president of CMRRA-SODRAC Inc. (CSI). With me are Alain Lauzon, CSI's vice-president, and our legal counsel, Casey Chisick, and Martin Lavallée. CSI represents the reproduction right in musical works—songs. Broadcas