Industry committee  SODRAC is a member of the private copying regime, and I think last week in front of you the people at the copyright regime, CPCC, came here and explained to you what we wanted related to that. Remember that in 1997 the law for the copyright regime was introduced in Canada.

Industry committee  I'll go in French, okay? The private copying regime applies to reproductions that are made by consumers but that we cannot control. In Canada, the private copying regime was introduced in 1997 and targeted physical media, DVDs and cassettes. Subsequently, some people argued tha

Industry committee  Yes.

Industry committee  No. In the CPCC brief that was filed on it, we were only talking about compensated copies that are legal. You have to understand, CMRRA and us, we have a joint venture called CSI. We issued licences for legal....

Industry committee  It's not illegal copies. It's for copies done by the consumer that we are not able to control. The source is not illegal. The source is legal.

Industry committee  Absolutely. In the licence that we issue to iTunes, if you download a song, it will be covered by your licence, and it's not on the computer, it's on the mobiles and the iPads. What we're looking for is say someone rips a copy or someone takes a copy on the net and downloads it

Industry committee  I remember back in 2012 when we wanted to have notice and take down and all that, but things evolve. You have to look in Canada at streaming. In 2014 Spotify came in, so it's kind of new in relation to that. The problem in the past was that, if there was no legal service availabl

Industry committee  In Mr. Stohn's case, we are talking about audiovisual. I can come back to that. This is about audio. The value has definitely decreased. The 2012 amendments to the act have cost us an incredible amount of money in many areas. I'm thinking of commercial radio and digital, for exam

Industry committee  If I may, I'm totally in agreement with Caroline. As I mentioned in my speech, we're on the side of the works. We're not on the side of sound recordings. We don't know the details related to that.

Industry committee  How do we bring users, who, increasingly, are from outside Canada, to the negotiating table, if the right we're defending isn't clear and has been weakened by a plethora of exceptions in terms of users' rights? How can we think that authors alone can negotiate the conditions of u

Industry committee  We are before you today on behalf of SODRAC, a collective rights organization that manages its members' reproduction rights and copyrights. Our members are creators of artistic works: authors, composers and music publishers. We make it easier for users to use our repertoire of wo

Canadian Heritage committee  International treaties in the digital field were signed around the world in 1996. Just think of the WIPO Copyright Treaty and the WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty. The European countries began to introduce these elements into their statutes. The European Commission did it

Canadian Heritage committee  We must look to the future. We're talking about the signed international agreements. Consider CETA in particular. However, Canada must maintain its independence and integrate his own policies. The international market is a good thing. However, when it comes to creation, assistanc

Canadian Heritage committee  Several years ago, all stakeholders in the cultural and music community requested that Internet access providers be required to make some form of contribution. However, developing that idea is still the biggest problem. The willingness of Internet access providers to make a contr

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you very much. You have to understand that we are not on the same basis as the copyright that we represent. CIMA and Mr. Johnston represent what we call the song recording, and we represent the works. In the law, it could be written differently. We can assume that for the