Industry committee  Ladies and gentlemen, on behalf of the Canadian Association of Broadcasters, I want to thank you for the opportunity to appear before you today to discuss issues relating to copyright, which are integral to our businesses. Local broadcasting in our country provides entertainment

Industry committee  My understanding is that more and more we are required to provide the list of artists that are played and that it is done in accordance with the songs that have actually been played, as opposed to samples.

Industry committee  We are using it.

Industry committee  We've certainly heard this and we find it very interesting. First of all, I think you must know that many of the radio stations that are under the CAB umbrella are small stations. Almost 60% of these stations are small stations. As for the stations that are owned by bigger ow

Industry committee  If I may offer a different perspective on this very good question, even if we were changing this amount, the end result is that very little is going to make it to the Canadian artists. What you've heard is from the U.S. multinational labels that are coming before you. They seem t

Industry committee  It's the way they distribute this money going forward. There is a fifty-fifty split between the record labels and the performers. On top of that, when they start, they deduct about 14% for admin fees. In the graph we've provided, you see that international performers get 15% of t

Industry committee  You're talking about the definitions of sound recording and television programming. We need to be very prudent when looking at this. We are in a very complex copyright regime under the Canadian act. A great balance has been achieved. It's not a simple exercise. When you look at

Industry committee  Maybe we can go deeper to provide you additional information, but I am not familiar with the German or French regimes, so I wouldn't be able to answer that.

Industry committee  The appearance of Bryan Adams before you last week was really telling in terms of the different perspective you can get from an artist who's sitting before you and really speaks for himself. It's different from what you may hear from the record labels. Maybe looking additionall

Industry committee  They do not pay for sound recordings, because they are related rights. This does not mean that they do not pay any copyright fees. This is the comparative measure we have used for this tariff, knowing that they have asked you to repeal the exemption provided for in section 68.1 o

Industry committee  To my knowledge, there is no tension between the two sides, even if we look at the francophone market, where Cogeco radio is helping the community station in Montreal. I would say in the French market, I have not experienced or seen any tension there.

Industry committee  We pay the five tariffs, and then it's redistributed by the collective that oversees these tariffs. However, we pay the five tariffs all the time.

Industry committee  Yes. It's not one or the other tariff; we pay the five of them.

Industry committee  This is for a total of $91 million for private radio stations per year.

Industry committee  Obviously, there are things that can always be improved. As our colleague was saying, the length of time that the decision takes before it gets out and the retroactive portion that is applied on these tariffs that are usually always increasing is definitely an issue with regard t