Canadian Heritage committee  Well, it depends who you include in the pie to begin with, I suppose.

Canadian Heritage committee  I'll try to be brief. The portion of the MMA, Music Modernization Act, that I'm most familiar with, and even so I'm not an expert in that domain, has to do with ensuring that there is much less fragmentation of the marketplace in the U.S. Up until now under the MMA, there has b

Canadian Heritage committee  We need to grow the pie.

Canadian Heritage committee  You do it by reducing the value gap that has gone out of control. You need to be able to get the services that are out there to stop hiding from the hosting services exemptions under the Copyright Act so that we can have better tools to monetize the content to get better royalty

Canadian Heritage committee  I would have to echo this. I have two comments on what I've been hearing. First, 25 years ago was 1993. I don't know about you, but the stuff I listen to these days is substantial from that period of the 1970s and 1980s. To me it doesn't seem that long ago. That being said, I

Canadian Heritage committee  Well, I'm not here to comment either way on the 25 years. What I am trying to say is that my focus is to have better tools to enforce copyright altogether for all rights holders.

Canadian Heritage committee  I spoke too long. I'm sorry.

Canadian Heritage committee  I can certainly start. I was thinking about that myself in my hotel room yesterday. When I started at CMRRA many, many years ago—I've been there for 27 years—we were in the CD marketplace at that point. When folks released these products in the marketplace without licences, wit

Canadian Heritage committee  Hello. Thank you very much. Thank you for inviting me to speak today. I'm just going to start right in and I promise that my presentation is not going to be too long. My name is Caroline Rioux. I am the president of the Canadian Musical Reproduction Rights Agency or CMRRA fo

Industry committee  I thank you for asking that, but I'm afraid I can't respond on this question. It's not the area I happen to work in. I think you've heard from other collectives on that matter in the past. Some of my colleagues here might be able to advance an answer, but it's just not the area

Industry committee  Yes, that's right.

Industry committee  Because of the limitation of time I didn't actually orally address that matter. In our written submission you'll be able to read a little bit more about it. When we defined the value gap, our experience in that has been that there are certain platforms that qualify, or self-quali

Industry committee  I would rather not name names because we do enter into negotiations over time with some of these types of services. Generally we're talking about user-generated content types of services, but what happens is that our negotiations become much more difficult to try to secure some f

Industry committee  Good afternoon. My name is Caroline Rioux. I am President of the Canadian Musical Reproduction Rights Agency, CMRRA. I thank the committee for the opportunity to share our experiences and recommendations for amendments to the Copyright Act. I have prepared a few brief slides to a