Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  In fact, the Copyright Board of Canada is an economic regulation agency, and it operates exactly like a court. On the one hand, the Canadian Private Copying Collective will come in with its armada of experts and lawyers to prove the value of copies made and how much the levy sho

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  In fact, here's what the Copyright Board would do. First, it would start by looking at whether the object presented to it is indeed an object ordinarily used to copy music. That, first and foremost, is one of the analyses that it would conduct. If it came to the conclusion that

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

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  Yes. What can we do? It's written within the law. It's a government power to limit the devices or the support for the media on which the levy could be asked, and to limit also the amount that could be asked. It's something that is written within the law.

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  It's one of the important things. I will answer your first question about the converging technologies, and I will answer in French because it's easier for me to do so. Even a blank CD can be used for something else than music. For example, photographs and text can be stored on

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  Whether I buy an iPod Shuffle or an iPod Nano, these are really what you call music devices. If you look at iPod advertisements, what do you see? People dancing. They're not reading course notes or looking at pictures: they're listening to music. These devices are designed to lis

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.

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  Yes.