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Canadian Heritage committee Good morning, Madam Chair and members of the committee. First of all, I would like to thank you for inviting me to appear before you today. The Copyright Act is a major source of revenue for the Canadian cultural sector. Right now, many stakeholders benefit from the value gener
May 31st, 2018Committee meeting
Jérôme Payette
Canadian Heritage committee Things have evolved a lot in recent years. Anywhere there is music, you will find publishers. They have diversified their sources of income a lot in the audiovisual area. Anywhere there is music, you will find them managing it and earning a profit from it. Music has never been se
May 31st, 2018Committee meeting
Jérôme Payette
Canadian Heritage committee I would say term extension and private copying.
May 31st, 2018Committee meeting
Jérôme Payette
Canadian Heritage committee I mean a levy on devices for reproduction.
May 31st, 2018Committee meeting
Jérôme Payette
Canadian Heritage committee It's not a tax but a levy.
May 31st, 2018Committee meeting
Jérôme Payette
Canadian Heritage committee I think that there are two ways of dealing with the issue of Internet service providers. Internet service providers do extremely well from content that is protected by copyright. In my opinion, one way to require them to do their part is to have them pay a royalty. For example,
May 31st, 2018Committee meeting
Jérôme Payette
Canadian Heritage committee In the short term, the answer would be to lift the CRTC's exemption for new media. The CRTC could lift it itself, but, if it doesn't, the Governor in Council has the authority, under sections 7 and 8 of the Broadcasting Act, to issue directions to the CRTC to lift the exemption f
May 31st, 2018Committee meeting
Jérôme Payette
Industry committee Mr. Chair and members of the committee, I am very pleased to appear before you today on this major review of the Copyright Act. The Professional Music Publishers' Association (APEM) represents francophone and Quebec music publishers in Canada. Our members run 830 publishing hous
September 19th, 2018Committee meeting
Jérôme Payette
Industry committee I'm not very familiar with the Copyright Board's procedures, because mostly it's the collective administration societies that go in front of the Copyright Board. To my understanding it's mostly like a tribunal that sets the rates, so it's very technical. I'm not sure that musici
September 19th, 2018Committee meeting
Jérôme Payette
Industry committee There are different types of professionals in the music industry. You can be a songwriter that does not necessarily perform, but in the case of a singer-songwriter who's also a performer, yes, performing has become important to make a living. Concerning mostly streaming service
September 19th, 2018Committee meeting
Jérôme Payette
Industry committee I think it's a very good example to follow and gives good balance to the rights holders, ahead of big international companies. They don't always have licences and they don't always pay for the music that's being used.
September 19th, 2018Committee meeting
Jérôme Payette
Industry committee I'm not familiar with the example. I know who Aretha Franklin is and I know the song. I think there's copyright on the song, but there's also remuneration coming out of the recording of the song. I think she probably made money with the recording of the song. I'm not familiar wit
September 19th, 2018Committee meeting
Jérôme Payette
Industry committee I don't think it would be necessary to be in the law. The composers don't have to sign an assignment of rights to work with a music publisher, and they don't even need to work with a music publisher because some people do their own business by themselves. There's nothing in the
September 19th, 2018Committee meeting
Jérôme Payette
Industry committee Yes, you can do whatever you want.
September 19th, 2018Committee meeting
Jérôme Payette
Industry committee I was not referring to content filters but what they have done in Europe, especially concerning article 13. They said that it's a communication to the public even if the work has been uploaded by a user. Right now, if I put something online, it's protected. If it's user-generate
September 19th, 2018Committee meeting
Jérôme Payette