Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. My name is Geneviève Côté, and I am Chief Affairs Officer at SOCAN. My colleague Gilles Daigle is SOCAN's General Counsel. SOCAN is the society that manages public performance rights for authors, composers, and music publishers. We currently have 150,000

Canadian Heritage committee  In fact, it's $38.72.

Canadian Heritage committee  It's the amount received by those of our members who have received royalties. You know how to calculate an average: you take the total amount of royalties collected and you divide it by the number of people who have received royalties. Since our members include stars like Drake

Canadian Heritage committee  It's the annual average for 2017.

Canadian Heritage committee  That's for sure. It's what Me Daigle was saying about private copying. We think this system should absolutely apply, regardless of what the music is copied onto. Not a lot of blank compact discs are sold any more.

Canadian Heritage committee  I thought it was $21 billion.

Canadian Heritage committee  We see that emerging from last week's CRTC report. We may finally decide to invite the GAFAs to the table, the players that enjoy the wealth produced by the use of content, both content used as a loss leader to promote device purchases and music that people merely listen to. Thos

Canadian Heritage committee  That will also be its 50th anniversary.

Canadian Heritage committee  The European Union has already issued a clear directive. The countries are in the process of incorporating it in their statutes. France is definitely at the top of the class in this area.

Canadian Heritage committee  I'd like to add something on the subject of dumb pipes. For a long time, we thought they really were that. Now they're capable of promoting data use. For example, in a monthly 100-megabyte subscription, they tell customers that listening to music on Spotify won't cut into their 1

Canadian Heritage committee  Good afternoon. We are before you today on behalf of SOCAN. We represent the rights to musical works of our 160,000 members, songwriters, music composers and music publishers. In short, we grant licenses, and collect the rights arising therefrom, notably from traditional broadcas

Canadian Heritage committee  When we compared distributions made to Canadian music rights holders....

Canadian Heritage committee  I'll be doing two other paragraphs in English, and then Martin will be speaking in English, and I'll be coming back to French.

Canadian Heritage committee  That's Canada. When we compared distributions made to Canadian music rights holders with what was distributed to foreign writers in regard to uses in media, we came to a devastating conclusion. In digital media, royalties paid to Canadian creators were three times lower. The ave

Canadian Heritage committee  In closing, there is another element of Bill C-10 that seems to us to require clarification, maybe even a correction, and that is the possible exclusion of certain social media activities from the application of the Broadcasting Act. Social media are enabling platforms used for m