Industry committee  What it would mean is that Canadian performers would end up with rights that look like those that belong to French performers and German performers and American performers around the world. This is a real question of harmonizing. If I may say, under the last government, we were v

Industry committee  What's being asked by the community, and I think we've all aligned on this, is not to impose a levy on consumers, but to seek a fund, a temporary four-year fund. The number that has come up is about $40 million per year. That is therefore not a levy. It becomes something that com

Industry committee  I'll recommend that the committee read the testimony of Andrew Morrison. He testified with me at heritage a couple of weeks ago. He is a member of The Jerry Cans. He is from Iqaluit. They were on the Junos. Actually, the night before he testified they had been at the National Art

Industry committee  In part, that's because policy-makers around the world—governments—decided to give the technology companies an advantage in the negotiations. It's very difficult to negotiate with somebody when they can stand behind a safe harbour. It's very difficult to negotiate and get.... We

Industry committee  I think every country has to make its contribution. The EU is fully charged with this issue right now and is probably on the verge of doing something about it. There are discussions going on in the United States, in Australia, and around the world, and we're having them here. Wha

Industry committee  What we're asking for are changes to our copyright law.

Industry committee  No, because all they're doing is offering a service like Spotify. I forget what they're calling it, but it's a service—

Industry committee  Yes, that's right. It just sits over there, but that's in a different component. That falls into subscription. Whether or not they're going to put money behind it and whether or not people are going to support it are issues.

Industry committee  Yes.

Industry committee  Generally speaking, this is a performers' group. I'm in an investor group. You notice how much we align. We're in a time of unprecedented unity where we've all come together. We recognize a common problem. Nobody's pointing fingers at one another, and we see the solutions. Ever

Industry committee  No, Vevo.... Currently—and YouTube will tell you this—98% of everything that's on YouTube is licensed because we're all remunerating it. The days of it all being illegal content are drifting away. That doesn't mean there isn't illegal content there. Vevo is a channel. It's an Ame

Industry committee  That was a huge battle at the time. That was an immense battle that was fought out on the front pages of newspapers, whether or not Canadian content rules should apply to those satellite...to Sirius and the others.

Industry committee  I think you've put your finger on the issue, because you have another exemption, another exemption, and another exemption. We all talk about exemptions to copyright. Every single time policy-makers create an exemption, they're excusing somebody from paying a royalty to somebody e

Industry committee  The connection is there, and the evidence is in. We can nurture the creative side of our brains while we're nurturing the more technological side of our brains. They work together.

Industry committee  No, in fact the opposite is true. A performer's share of the pie vis-à-vis their corporate interactions with labels has increased. That's not where the value gap lies. The problem is that vast sums of money are pooling outside of our business, on the other side of the ledger, a