Industry committee  You're welcome.

Industry committee  Minister Bains has been very engaged on this. There was a Senate hearing. The bureaucrats, everybody...this is one of those unique situations where nobody is throwing bricks through anybody's window. Everybody agrees that it's dated, dysfunctional, and needs to be fixed. Those w

Industry committee  Well, that's my opinion. I think that if he does what Elliott said, it will be great.

Industry committee  Well, $100 million plus of income is exempt from being royalty bearing.

Industry committee  Yes. There is royalty-free income. It's not supposed to be royalty-free. It's supposed to carry a royalty. You're right. It was originally intended—and I think Elliott or Laurie made this point—for very small mom and pop stations, community radio, universities, and we're in. Prot

Industry committee  Yes.

Industry committee  Yes.

Industry committee  Yes.

Industry committee  Yes. I believe Mr. Longfield read some testimony of Miranda Mulholland into the record last time around, if I'm not wrong. Miranda is well known for having given this very specific example of Republic of Doyle. She played fiddle all over 200 episodes of that and received her basi

Industry committee  No. I think it's absorbing a lot of attention here today, but it's actually a minor piece in the puzzle. The bigger issue is getting that marketplace working again, and you get the marketplace working again by getting rid of all of these cross-subsidies, all of these negotiating

Industry committee  It's mostly the Copyright Act. That's where all these exceptions sit, and so there is a power on this committee. If you choose to, you can make changes that can impact Canadians almost immediately, instead of waiting years for studies. I know we have to go through this process,

Industry committee  Part of the answer is that the performer groups, the label groups, and the music publishers have all come together on this. There's no issue among us. We're confident that money will be divided appropriately. It has been to date—nobody's unhappy about it—and it will continue to b

Industry committee  I think the important thing is that if you were to go the fund route, then we're not worried about impacting consumers.

Industry committee  Yes, but it could be the long term. The point would be that the government is recognizing the importance of performers and others getting paid for this type of copying.

Industry committee  They can do it in France. There are lots of places around the world that do this. It's just a question of measuring and estimating, and then allocating. There are very sophisticated algorithms that would be able to do that.