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  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 based on sale surveys, on the one hand. Fifty per cent of the data that are used are sales data. So if someone sells albums, it can be assumed they will eventually be copied. The other 50% are broadcasting data. So if someone is regularly broadcast on the radio or elsewhere

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  I would be very pleased to do so. First of all, it isn't a tax. You who are here and who work in government, you are in a good position to know that a tax is money that goes to the government, that is used to pay for public services. In this instance—

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  In this instance, you should never use that word. That is misinformation, it misleads people, and it causes confusion. A royalty is a revenue that is collected by the Canadian Private Copying Collective and that is paid directly to music creators. It is in no way a tax, just as

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  No, that's not at all the case. As I have said and repeated, it would be between $2 and $25. That amount could be determined by the Copyright Board. It wouldn't be $75 at all, and, once again, the government could even impose a ceiling on the amount that could be collected under

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  Absolutely not; that's not what's provided for. We're not talking about every medium designed, manufactured and marketed or commercialized. Are there any advertisements that suggest buying a car in order to copy music? That doesn't exist; I've never heard of any such thing. The s

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  No. We retained the services of the firm that normally conducts surveys for the Conservative Party, Praxicus, and according to the surveys they conducted, 67% of consumers are in favour of a royalty, and 71% believe that a royalty of $10 is a fair and reasonable levy. When that a

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  Yes, I'd be pleased to do so.

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  No. Look, these are two separate things. There's access to music and there are reproductions of music. So, at the time, in 1997, when people bought a CD, part of the royalties went to the artists, just as when people now download a song from iTunes. Even in a legal business, th

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  No. The levy in fact guarantees artists an income that is proportionate to their success. These amounts are distributed based on the number of sales made by the artists and also based on the broadcasting of that music. Of course, an artist who manages to create a very popular