Bill C-11 committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Good afternoon. I would like to thank the members of the legislative committee for allowing us to give testimony before you today. My name is Alain Lauzon and I am the general manager of SODRAC. Joining me is Martin Lavallée, Director, Licensing and Leg

Bill C-11 committee  To conclude, I would like to point out that SODRAC plays an active role in the work and recommendations of the following groups: the Coalition des ayants droit musicaux sur Internet, DAMIC or Droit d'auteur Multimédia-Internet Copyright, and the coalition of cultural organization

Bill C-11 committee  The Copyright Board is recognized worldwide as a place that establishes the value of the right. Participants are using it, especially in the right of reproduction, for which, under law, we can negotiate with our partner. We can do it as arbitration or we can go for a tariff. Th

Bill C-11 committee  If I may, I am going to answer part of your question and Martin will add to my answer afterwards. You are comparing the video industry to the music industry in terms of facing the same problems. It is all related to bandwidth. Music is instant. But downloading a video takes more

Bill C-11 committee  We're talking about private copying. We're talking about monetization, about ISPs. We're talking about the fact that for a copyright owner there is a value to the work that is used by the consumer or by the ISPs that are using those works.

Bill C-11 committee  I don't know. You have to look around the world. There are multiple technologies that you can have—

Bill C-11 committee  Yes, well, if you look at some countries, they use the three-step test, the three-strike—

Bill C-11 committee  Sure. Why not?

Bill C-11 committee  Sure. Why not?

Bill C-11 committee  Sure. Why not?

Bill C-11 committee  It's another way of monetizing the value of the right.

Bill C-11 committee  There's a value—

Bill C-11 committee  When we are in front of the Copyright Board, the Copyright Board does not give any royalties based on what we ask. What they do is they ask.... Let's say it's CPCC. They are well informed of it there and they do some surveys of what it has done. When we receive the private copyin

Bill C-11 committee  There is a way by which you will have to remunerate the value of the songs that are created and pay for the songs. That's for sure.

Bill C-11 committee  We don't see that the law creates value for the creators. You create value for part of the ayants droit—