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Bill C-11 committee Yes.
March 5th, 2012Committee meeting
Stephen Stohn
Bill C-11 committee I think there's a very clear question there, and obviously you're interpreting it one way. Another person might say that the single infringement, the one act of uploading it onto YouTube, does not in and of itself cause a substantial deleterious impact on the market for Degrassi.
March 5th, 2012Committee meeting
Stephen Stohn
Bill C-11 committee We simply agree to disagree. To me it's not clear that.... I think it could be argued the other way. You may be right; I hope you are.
March 5th, 2012Committee meeting
Stephen Stohn
Bill C-11 committee Absolutely, and I think that is a good thing. I don't care ab initio about receiving money from those mashups because they serve a wonderful purpose without receiving money. However, if somebody who has no relation to creating the mashup—either the fan who spent hours compiling i
March 5th, 2012Committee meeting
Stephen Stohn
Bill C-11 committee It could fundamentally change. I'll give you one right in particular: the retransmission right. In Canada, there are tens of millions of dollars at stake, and it's the copyright owners of the underlying work who are entitled to this remuneration. If the directors were named the
March 5th, 2012Committee meeting
Stephen Stohn
Bill C-11 committee The kind of people I was describing are absolutely not. They don't end up making any money. YouTube, of course, may.
March 5th, 2012Committee meeting
Stephen Stohn
Bill C-11 committee I'll start. I don't have those overall figures, although I know our associations do. Hopefully in their briefs those types of figures are available. What I'll say very briefly, and then let the others carry on, is that over the past few years, the licence fees that television
March 5th, 2012Committee meeting
Stephen Stohn
Bill C-11 committee I do not believe there is anything in the independent production agreement that acknowledges in any way that the director is an author, nor in the agreement with the writers' guild. Yes, there are royalty payments, as there are with the writers, as there are with actors, and as m
March 5th, 2012Committee meeting
Stephen Stohn
Bill C-11 committee Unfortunately, it is the exact opposite.
March 5th, 2012Committee meeting
Stephen Stohn
Bill C-11 committee In the United States the production company or the producer is effectively the author and owns all rights. They're our largest partner. The CMPA and I, personally, over the years have lobbied for a clarification that the producer be identified as the author. I thought it was a ve
March 5th, 2012Committee meeting
Stephen Stohn
Bill C-11 committee Yes.
March 5th, 2012Committee meeting
Stephen Stohn
Bill C-11 committee When I was trying to tell my wife—and I'm tearing up even now—I was so choked up I couldn't even get the words out.
March 5th, 2012Committee meeting
Stephen Stohn
Bill C-11 committee Yes. Between the two of them, they're in well over 100 countries around the world.
March 5th, 2012Committee meeting
Stephen Stohn
Bill C-11 committee Indeed.
March 5th, 2012Committee meeting
Stephen Stohn
Bill C-11 committee Copyright is territorial, so when we're dealing in the United States, we're dealing with the U.S. copyright act, and when we're dealing in France, we're dealing with the French copyright act. It really hasn't been that much of an issue. There are relatively standard terms and con
March 5th, 2012Committee meeting
Stephen Stohn