Industry committee  As a music publisher, we have a small subsidy from a program called Music Entrepreneur Component, which I believe is partially supported by that particular fund. I know there's more support on the recorded music side, but I'm really not able to comment in any kind of detail.

Industry committee  Are you talking about GST? I don't understand how they're not, if you're just asking my position. That's more of a government revenue situation. It doesn't really affect the royalties that we get paid, but yes, if you're asking me personally, I think so. Yes.

Industry committee  I'll give you a concrete example. We have an agreement with YouTube in the United States where we get a certain percentage of the money they generate on ad views paid to us as the publisher of the composition that's in the video being used. That is actually generating something n

Industry committee  You have to consider that the best-case scenario is several years of lost revenue, and again as Martin said, it's a much worse negotiating position right from the get-go.

Industry committee  I understand where the exceptions....The idea is that you're giving consumers the ability to do these things. In reality what you're doing is you're giving giants a negotiating tool they can hammer Canadian creators with. That's basically what it comes down to. They are generatin

Industry committee  What worries me is that often in this debate creators have been pitted against consumers. I don't understand that logic, especially when we're talking about the giants. I'll just mention the example of Apple Music or Spotify. A Spotify subscription costs $10 or $12 a month. The

Industry committee  Good afternoon. Mr. Chair, committee members, thank you for giving me the opportunity to address you. I'm going to tell you a bit about what is happening in the field, from the experience of a music publisher. I was born in Jonquière, in Saguenay—Lac-Saint-Jean. I'm an enterta