Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  It absolutely covers DARs, what we call digital audio recorders. When we asked for a levy on them, even the Federal Court of Appeal said it was really clear that they were devices ordinarily used to copy music. Unfortunately, the terms of the law don't allow us to apply a levy be

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  Yes.

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  Yes, definitely. You're talking about a music card.

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  The movable music card? Look, that's perhaps something that should be submitted to the Copyright Board to see whether it might be a blank audio medium that could eventually be subject to the levy. However, with regard to the BlackBerry as such, I have never seen any advertisement

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  A movable electronic memory card could perhaps be subject to a levy; I don't know. That will be for the Copyright Board to rule on.

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  First, the board starts by determining whether it is a medium ordinarily used to copy music. Once that is established and it believes that a levy may be imposed, it will assess the extent to which, the frequency at which it is used to make copies of music. I'm just going to requ

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  That's it; the board will verify the frequency at which it is used to copy music. Based on that, it will establish the value of the copies made. For example, a copy made on a blank CD has a certain value. It will assess various criteria to determine what value the copy made on an

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  Levies were collected on digital audio recorders for 10 months in 2004. We've collected $4 million in the first 10 months of the collection of royalties on the DARs. We collected $4 million in the first 10 months from the royalties on the DARs.

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  I can tell you that, based on the last figures we've obtained, legal downloading has increased somewhat in a year. Before that, 90% of the content on an MP3 player consisted of unauthorized copies. For 2008-2009, we see that unauthorized reproductions represented 85%. So there ha

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  The option of making downloading illegal is a central issue. However, whether or not there is illegal downloading, that will never prevent copies of musical works from being made, in particular using all the CDs that are bought. Music copying is a recurring phenomenon. However,

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  In 2008, it was $27.6 million. When the amounts available for distribution were at their highest point, it was about $32 million.

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  Of course. That way you can see what amounts were available for distribution for each year in which the system was in effect.

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  In 2010, the amount available for distribution will be $10.6 million.

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  It will continue to decline. We would like a certain level of stability to be achieved and maintained, but the figures we're being given indicate to us that it will continue to decline.

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  No. In fact, we relied on the royalties that were established in 2004. Considering the reasons that were given for establishing those amounts, we believe those amounts are still plausible.