Industry committee  Thank you very much, sir. Before I begin, I apologize. I thought I had eight minutes, so I probably will go a little long.

Industry committee  Thank you. Mr. Chair and members of the Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology, on behalf of Facebook, I want to thank you for giving us the opportunity to speak to you today. My name is Kevin Chan, and I'm the head of public policy at Facebook Canada. I'm joine

Industry committee  I'm sorry, but I just want to confirm, sir. You're referring to a piece of Bach that was uploaded, and then—

Industry committee  It's Rights Manager.

Industry committee  That's interesting. I'm not familiar with that particular example. I think you are right that—well, grosso modo, how it works is that for any reported piece of content, as I mentioned in the opening statement, certainly an individual at Facebook would review that report and ensur

Industry committee  As I said, we had close to half a million reports, I think it was, in the first half of 2018, and that resulted in about three million copyright takedowns globally. I think there are some other things that we do have to complement that, which are our automated systems. Potentiall

Industry committee  Right. Potentially, this could be an automated system example. I would obviously also want to add—and I'll turn it over to Probir in case you have something to add, Probir—that the concern for us is always, as you point out, sir, false positives. We want to be tough to ensure tha

Industry committee  It's Rights Manager.

Industry committee  Sir, if I may, I'll just refer to my colleagues. We have a slight nuance for rights management.

Industry committee  Yes. I would bring you back, sir, to what I mentioned earlier in the opening statement about how we have individuals who review all the reports, and that's precisely to try to get the balance right. I think, though, this concept runs into challenges when we're talking about some

Industry committee  I'm happy to take that, sir. Thank you. I actually did, in fact, spend a day with the FNC, with their president and a few other people, at a recent conference in Montreal with respect to misinformation and digital literacy, and that proposal was in fact shared with me. The con

Industry committee  Okay, I see, sir. That's right. I think for the content we're talking about, rights holder content, if it shouldn't be on Facebook—we've talked a lot about music this afternoon—it would be taken down. Obviously if a publisher had, let's say, a firewall around their content on

Industry committee  No, sir, we don't really have a comment on it.

Industry committee  I would just say, once again, that our enforcement of any kind of illicit or infringing content is pretty good where it stands. You'll know, sir, that in terms of music content, at this point we are removing that content when it is detected or when people report it and it's a val

Industry committee  Thank you for the question. Do you mean that when a broadcaster puts a show of their own volition on Facebook, should we not think about ways to compensate them for that?