Industry committee  Not to split hairs, but I didn't say that creators were doing better. I said that the broadcast industry is doing better. The question that raises is how artists are being compensated and what the deal is among broadcasters, broadcasting distributors and artists. We encourage you

Industry committee  I'm not sure where that is in our brief, but second window rights would be when the first blush goes through and you sell your content to whatever platform it is. Then that either leaves space for another windowing, or after that time, you can then pass it on to another platform

Industry committee  I'm not sure we've gotten that deeply into the analysis of it. We've recently revised our position so that we would consider changing the Canadian ownership directive so that Netflix and Amazon Prime and these sorts of things could have to contribute Canadian content. That would

Industry committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you very much for having me, committee members. The Public Interest Advocacy Centre is a national non-profit organization and registered charity that provides legal and research services on behalf of consumer interests, in particular vulnerable consum

Industry committee  I think we agree with you that consumers should have control, and that's what you're talking about. I own the device and I pay for the connectivity. That's the way the act is set up now. If it turns to opt out, consumers lose control. What you're going to get, if you lose control

Industry committee  At the moment, the CRTC is working hard with other jurisdictions to try to cross-pursue, if you will, spammers on both sides. If the legislation is changed significantly to do with insulation of programs, they'll just have that many fewer tools to go after people pushing malware

Industry committee  We believe that the regulations in place and the exceptions referred to—warranty and that type of thing for contacting customers in the flow of a business relationship—are presently wide enough. If there are additional factors that have to be thought of, then doing that through a

Industry committee  I didn't say that small business owners are lazy. They certainly aren't. I said that business practices where you are not getting consumers' consent post the law are lazy, and using old lists or buying lists that have no relation to your consumer base is a prohibitive practice, a

Industry committee  Mr. Smith already provided you the answer. There is a CRTC regulation that allows closed-loop social networks: if they post the information about how contacts will be exchanged on the site, they're pretty much exempt from this. At the moment, they're not really covered when you'r

Industry committee  It helps.

Industry committee  No, our view is that with the enforcement spectrum the CRTC is already using, they don't waste their time on very small situations. They look for patterns of behaviour, very egregious spamming episodes, ones where the company is completely recalcitrant and doesn't respond to entr

Industry committee  I think CASL lined up consumer expectation with the law. Prior to this time, consumers wanted to have control. They thought that they should only get emails that they've consented to. Now, the law lines up with that. That's really my only way to answer your question. If it's cha

Industry committee  The spam volume for Canadians will go up. What Canadians consider to be spam are messages that they don't want to receive, that are unsolicited. What this act does is flip it around. You have to ask consumers first. That's the point. What they would start getting is unsolicited

Industry committee  There are a few spam studies out there, from the Netherlands and other places, where they've set up spam traps. There are emails that have never been used by anyone for anything, but researchers set them up, and they end up trapping only spam because they have never been used for

Industry committee  We therefore find it disingenuous that representatives of companies and marketers are here today to say the CASL is somehow bad for consumers and commerce. Instead, we believe CASL is bringing some control to consumers in their electronic interactions with marketers and that cons