Canadian Heritage committee  I believe witnesses from Music Canada and from Re:Sound have appeared before you. Both of those organizations are controlled and owned by the major record labels. They have brought artists in before you. I believe those artists were speaking to a different issue, because those ar

Canadian Heritage committee  I think that is one of the considerations in contemplating the right balance. You have to consider that this is money that is currently being spent on local Canadian programming, as opposed to going outside of the country.

Canadian Heritage committee  I think the partnership between the labels and the artists is something that needs to be looked at. Right now, they have to split that remuneration fifty-fifty. That's prescribed under copyright legislation. If there's a willingness to rebalance that, then certainly that split co

Canadian Heritage committee  To answer one of your questions specifically, the suggested amendments to section 68.1 would represent a 44% increase on that unit cost. Obviously, that would come as an additional cost to radio broadcasters that they would then have to manage along with their other programming c

Industry committee  We estimate that about 40% of our membership would be over that cap.

Industry committee  On that particular tariff?

Industry committee  I do not think we've broken that down. The tariff in itself generates $18 million. If you wanted to do the rough math that way, I'm not sure it would be accurate. We could look and try to provide that information for you. It is private because we're all competitors at the end of

Industry committee  We had one chart on radio and the actual neighbouring rights. I was referring to a recent article about Spotify changing its business model to benefit artists more directly by taking out the label relationship. I can certainly provide you with the reference to that.

Industry committee  Yes.

Industry committee  Absolutely. My pleasure.

Industry committee  English.

Industry committee  SOCAN is for the communication to the public by the composers and lyricists. Re:Sound is for the neighbouring rights—the performer and the owner of the sound recording, so the performer and the label. That's why it's split fifty-fifty. Then the CMRRA-SODRAC is the reproduction ri

Industry committee  Certainly it would help with the streamlining of our copyright liability. Right now, we have to defend ourselves or object to five different tariffs on a regular basis, sometimes without knowing what the rate is because of the length of the Copyright Board decisions. That certain

Industry committee  I think there's a distinction between the administration of the right and the actual right in the legislation.

Industry committee  We pay $100 on the first $1.25 million and then the Copyright Board sets a tariff for the revenue threshold over and above that amount.