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Canadian Heritage committee  They feel that if they're not there and every big artist is, they can't compete. As I said, our catalogue has been available in Rdio and Deezer in Canada since this week, actually. We're just on this week. Rdio is actually putting out a press release to say that they have our cat

April 29th, 2014Committee meeting

Christian Breton

Canadian Heritage committee  No, I think I've given enough output.

April 29th, 2014Committee meeting

Christian Breton

Canadian Heritage committee  This goes back to what we were saying earlier. Regarding streaming, we negotiated with Sélect Digital for a year and a half to obtain better conditions. Our content has just arrived on Rdio and Deezer. Finally, when all of the major companies are at the table, our negotiating pow

April 29th, 2014Committee meeting

Christian Breton

Canadian Heritage committee  I think that the difference is that 10 years ago shows were used to promote disks and to help with the sale of the disk. Today, a disk is often perceived as a tool to promote the tour. That is where we are at currently.

April 29th, 2014Committee meeting

Christian Breton

Canadian Heritage committee  That's somewhat difficult for us, as we are sitting on the fence, in a way. We are managing a streaming service, and that is very difficult because we are fighting against giants. At the same time, we are trying to develop our service to help local and Canadian artists gain visib

April 29th, 2014Committee meeting

Christian Breton

Canadian Heritage committee  In fact, I will answer by using an established artist as an example. I am not going to name any, but the situation arose twice during the past six months. The artist approached us to obtain a licence for his album. The album was ready to be launched and the artist was looking f

April 29th, 2014Committee meeting

Christian Breton

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes, physical sales have been down a lot the last few years. They have been going down a lot. Last year we had a better year. However, the problem with falling physical sales in the last few years is that they are falling faster than digital sales are rising. The digital sales

April 29th, 2014Committee meeting

Christian Breton