Industry committee  The issue was...?

Industry committee  Every company that licenses music for a game or creates music for a game would license that through a management or a collective or something. They would pay for that up front, typically. But with respect to—and I don't know if you're referring to the making available right, whic

Industry committee  Your first question, I believe, is about the impact of copyright on smaller video game companies trying to make it within the video game industry. There are about 600 video game companies in Canada. We're producing over 2,100 different products a year. The vast majority of those

Industry committee  It's always been a challenge to quantify that number. We know how much we sell legitimately, but we're not able to put a number on the legitimate copies sold versus those that have been pirated, but it's large. It's mainly much larger now toward cloning and mobile games. Mobile g

Industry committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you to the committee for the opportunity to participate in this study today. Again, as stated, my name is Jayson Hilchie, and I'm the president and CEO of the Entertainment Software Association of Canada. The ESAC represents a number of leading vide

Canadian Heritage committee  There are networking features.

Canadian Heritage committee  No, it won't work on the online functionality.

Canadian Heritage committee  Not on everything, but the technological protection measures allow us to go after those who circumvent the encryption technologies that we use. One of the other issues that presents itself, which I'll discuss more in-depth next week at the industry committee, is the notice and

Canadian Heritage committee  You can always make improvements to it, but we have a lot better protection than we had prior to 2012, and I think that, given the fact that we're not asking for anything new—

Canadian Heritage committee  Specifically around the notice regime, the ability to remove infringing content would be a plus, but we're really not advocating for that very strongly in this round. For us it's a matter of trying to get the notice and notice regime to work efficiently and properly.

Canadian Heritage committee  Most of the piracy that we encounter is digital piracy. A lot of it is on mobile games, clones and things like that. As I said in my opening remarks, a lot of the things that we have done to combat piracy have been the technological protection measures that we put in the games an

Canadian Heritage committee  Just to fully understand the question, how it is...?

Canadian Heritage committee  In fairness, I'm not on that side of the business, and based on some of the formulaic content I've heard here today, I'm glad I'm not, because of the percentage of revenue and things like that. As I said earlier to Mr. Blaney, our game makers will have licensing and copyright de

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes, a lot of the games in our industry create their own music using outsourced artists, not necessarily taking a song from the radio and putting it in a game. In fact, most of the music in a game is built for that game, like a movie score would be built for a movie, to enhance t

Canadian Heritage committee  It was the section on TPMs, the fact that selling circumvention devices in Canada is illegal. Having them and selling them are illegal.