Industry committee It's not only the notice and take down. It's also the remedies that allow you to enforce your rights that go hand in hand with the provision, and we'll have more details of that in our submission.
June 5th, 2018Committee meeting
Margaret McGuffin
Industry committee I think you should be asking those communities, because they're very clear on what they need.
June 5th, 2018Committee meeting
Margaret McGuffin
Industry committee We have about 50 members, but the really interesting thing is that there's been some new Canadian independent companies that have emerged over the last 12 years, and we're very excited about that, despite all this disruption.
June 5th, 2018Committee meeting
Margaret McGuffin
Industry committee The revenues for our members with Canadian offices have grown by $120 million from $80 million in that period, mostly, as I said, looking at the export market.
June 5th, 2018Committee meeting
Margaret McGuffin
Industry committee It's not in my area. It used to be. I could tell you that I was there when we were discussing this, and it was always meant to allow the small, private mom-and-pop ones to have the exception. What happened was that the large groups applied it to each station, so the amount was mu
June 5th, 2018Committee meeting
Margaret McGuffin
Industry committee No, it's the way that the act is drafted, and it applies to each individual station.
June 5th, 2018Committee meeting
Margaret McGuffin
Industry committee Yes. It is not what we anticipated when we were looking at the legislation at the time.
June 5th, 2018Committee meeting
Margaret McGuffin
Industry committee Discoverability is a huge problem across the music streaming platforms and the audiovisual platforms. It's also a language issue in terms of being able to discover francophone content. I speak to my colleagues in Quebec about this all the time. We are very happy to hear the annou
June 5th, 2018Committee meeting
Margaret McGuffin
Industry committee It's continuing to grow very quickly, and there are new players. Amazon launched its core service more recently, so there are new players coming into the market. It's good for all of us when there are companies that want to come in to the Canadian market, and when subscribers wan
June 5th, 2018Committee meeting
Margaret McGuffin
Industry committee I don't really have a comment on that.
June 5th, 2018Committee meeting
Margaret McGuffin
Industry committee When I was making that comment, I was specifically talking about term extension, extending the term to life of the author plus 70. It's currently at life plus 50. All our major trading partners have that, with the exception of Japan, and it's moving in that direction.
June 5th, 2018Committee meeting
Margaret McGuffin
Industry committee Yes. We're one of the few in the world. It's not just our major trading partners.
June 5th, 2018Committee meeting
Margaret McGuffin
Industry committee On the publisher-songwriter side, that new service is being licensed in a way similar to Apple or Spotify. YouTube is not being licensed that way.
June 5th, 2018Committee meeting
Margaret McGuffin
Industry committee In terms of the recommendations we are talking about today, this is a change in times. It's a change in technology, so part of the falling revenues are around changes in where the revenue is coming from. One of the things the private copying levy allowed, when it was fully in fo
June 5th, 2018Committee meeting
Margaret McGuffin
Industry committee We don't support it in the way that it's applied in the U.S., and we'll provide more details in our submission.
June 5th, 2018Committee meeting
Margaret McGuffin