Canadian Heritage committee  I think that one link will have all the submissions from all 60 people who participated.

Canadian Heritage committee  It is based on their distribution rules, which are based on international standards.

Canadian Heritage committee  I'm not aware of any.

Canadian Heritage committee  The single most important issue before the election is Copyright Board reform.

Canadian Heritage committee  There was a consultation last September, which the innovation department ran. There were 60 submissions, which had suggestions that were quite harmonized across the user side and the payee side. I think you can turn to those submissions. You will find that some of them are around

Canadian Heritage committee  We would like to see term extension.

Canadian Heritage committee  I think they're interrelated, but we are behind all of our major trading partners except Japan, and Japan is moving to harmonize with the other trading partners.

Canadian Heritage committee  My first would be a warning on exceptions. Exceptions sound very harmless when they are pitched as small solutions, but they have played havoc in the last five years when combined with an ineffectual copyright board. Money is being held back from creators while we wait for decisi

Canadian Heritage committee  Music publishers have a contractual relationship with composers and songwriters. They assume a share of the copyright only after entering into a contract with a composer, a lyricist, or a songwriter.

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes. That is correct.

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes.

Canadian Heritage committee  They send to both, based on the contractual arrangement, but they have a minimum of a fifty-fifty split.

Canadian Heritage committee  At a maximum, the publisher can only get 50% of what is collected. The songwriter will get 50%. In many cases, especially in English Canada, the contracts are such that the songwriter is getting that 50% plus some of the publishing money.

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you for this opportunity to be here today. I'm here with Vince Degiorgio. He is the chair of the Canadian Music Publishers Association and owner of CYMBA Music Publishing. Vince, as you will hear, is a music publisher and he is a songwriter. His voice adds much to this di

Finance committee  There are three particular things. One is that music publishers are capped at a funding of only $75,000 a year, whereas record labels are capped at $650,000. It's a very big difference. You could have a bigger music publisher than a label, and because of some old rules and how th