Canadian Heritage committee  I would just add that I do think this is an issue. It may be that the larger companies have an ability, for whatever reasons, to access this talent, but I do think there is an issue for smaller music businesses in this country in getting access to this type of talent. It's someth

Canadian Heritage committee  We do support levies like this. We are also a member of the CPCC through our membership in the NRCC. It's not just artists who benefit. It's independent labels, major labels, songwriters. A lot of people benefit from the levy, so I don't think there's an issue about the existing

Canadian Heritage committee  Correct.

Canadian Heritage committee  There's a levy currently on other storage media.

Canadian Heritage committee  That levy in and of itself will disappear through the passage of time.

Canadian Heritage committee  No. So long as a levy is focused on.... If somebody goes and buys a CD or downloads something, if they want to make a private copy of that, and the levy focuses on picking up a small pittance for the privilege of making that copy, I don't have a problem with that.

Canadian Heritage committee  It can make a bit of a difference.

Canadian Heritage committee  Correct.

Canadian Heritage committee  I think what we've seen internationally is that you can't just implement a law like this and then do nothing. The government could and should be involved, as should business, as should all of us, in an extensive educational campaign to turn this around. It's not going to be easy,

Canadian Heritage committee  The reason we did—and now, Charlie, you're going back to a little bit of ancient history, under the old act, not about your own bill—is that we do not support levies that have the effect of laundering illegally acquired music into legal copies--

Canadian Heritage committee  --which would have the effect of destroying our marketplace.

Canadian Heritage committee  I thought you would have had all you ever wanted to hear about that last Tuesday. I would have to say, having read the transcripts, or being aware of what was said there, I concur with that; I mean, we are opposed to the sort of fair market proposal that's being promulgated, whi

Canadian Heritage committee  I think the levy debate is obscuring the real problem. Levies, historically, have never been more than an ancillary support for artists. The levies could and should have been a fraction of what the artists were able to make, whether through touring or selling their high-value ass

Canadian Heritage committee  If you're asking about notice and notice, do we like notice and notice? Notice and notice is where it's determined that somebody has downloaded something that they shouldn't have. I don't know if everybody understands how that works. We send a notice to the ISP, the ISP sends a n

Canadian Heritage committee  Notice and takedown is for an entirely different problem. Notice and takedown is designed to solve a problem where somebody has accessed somebody else's work.