Canadian Heritage committee  Not on the copyright side. There may be different terms of copyright, but basically we own the project and then we sell the exploitation rights for a period of time. All the copyright laws that we deal with sort of align.

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes, on the retransmission, on just having a more modern, efficient system to track. However, I think the underlying theory is good.

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes. We are developing, with an Indian band, a film institution in northern Ontario. We have made arrangements with the school and with the individual students who are telling...I'm not sure these are historic stories as opposed to current reflections of their lives. We are working with them, and they are part of the creative process.

Canadian Heritage committee  I think from the beginning, the inception of the project, the true copyright owner of the concept was an author of a series of books. We did an arrangement with her, and she participates in revenues every year from our budget, plus she gets a participation in success. She is making some money alongside with us.

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you very much, Madam Chair. My name is Scott Garvie, and I am the Senior Vice-President, Business and Legal Affairs, at Shaftesbury Films in Toronto. I am also the current Chair of the Board of Directors of the Canadian Media Producers Association. Thank you very much for inviting me today to speak to you about the importance of copyright to producers.