Finance committee  The only requirement on the corporation is to seek out the information of the ultimate natural person controlling of the share, so if that spouse is, in fact, the ultimate controller of that share, yes. If that individual is, in fact, the controller of the share and the voting ri

Canadian Heritage committee  I think you're quite correct. I think the law sits in this complex marketplace now. I think the law has a fundamental role to play in setting the rules of the road. We've seen over time that changes to the law and the evolution of the law have been a force in that marketplace, bu

Canadian Heritage committee  I will go back to the Re:Sound example because I think it's an interesting one. The Copyright Act says neighbouring rights exist. They say it's a mandatory licence, and a mandatory licence for everyone who uses recorded music. When Re:Sound knocks on every restaurant's door in t

Canadian Heritage committee  We have no data on how much stream ripping is or is not happening. We do have this public opinion research that we just completed that has some notion of the mechanisms by which people are accessing content both legally and illegally, which gives us some sense. As I indicated in

Canadian Heritage committee  From our perspective I think my colleagues are bang on in the sense of you'll get a desire for new ways to negotiate with partners. Some people have indicated they'd like a requirement to negotiate with certain other content distributors or others or platforms or others. Maybe

Canadian Heritage committee  To Lara's point, I think we can put people into different camps, and it varies enormously by medium because there is a relatively robust infrastructure in Canada to assist creators in being able to understand and work together. Often, that comes with assistance around getting int

Canadian Heritage committee  There are a number of mechanisms that are built in. Intellectual property rights, by their nature, are private rights. They are held by the owner of the right and are litigated on their behalf. But there are a number of mechanisms that we put in place to try to make that as effic

Canadian Heritage committee  In my opinion, it's not all bad. There are some bright lights and some interesting things that are happening at the same time. We are absolutely in this phase of significant disruption, but there are some novel, new things happening. We talked about blockchain and some of the da

Canadian Heritage committee  Maybe I'll make the distinction between technological neutrality and being neutral to changing cultural norms. The law is flexible in a sense because the courts have essentially interpreted the continued licensing value regardless of what means it's being sent on. The law in some

Canadian Heritage committee  There's certainly a significant use of new tools from creators. Your point is a good one. I think we can look at a number of the most recent Canadian success stories in the performer category of people who got their start using new mechanisms for promotion, including social media

Canadian Heritage committee  I think the list is no problem. I think the solutions may be more challenging because of the unique nature of the Canadian system. One has to look at your last point, and I will be very brief. That is to say that one needs to put this in its much broader context: we have a uniq

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes, I would build on that by saying it's really about the fundamental disruption and change in the marketplace that are creating a totally different supply chain than what used to be. If I were a creator in the past, I would show up at my music label and sign a deal. They would

Canadian Heritage committee  The approaches that creators are taking, again, depend enormously on sector and on medium, but there are novel ways that creators are looking to be able to pursue: licensing, smart contracts, agents and other people who act as brokers on behalf of the creator's rights. In the wo

Canadian Heritage committee  It might come back up again, and I think we can indicate that educational copying is currently one of the most complex and heated issues in copyright. I think our view on remuneration would be, generally, that we would like to see a world in which the public policy objectives of

Canadian Heritage committee  The Copyright Board is embedded in the act and has, arguably, four sets of tariffs that it sets through a tariff-setting process to set a value for copyrighted material. There are those who are forced by obligation of the law to participate in a tariff-setting process. Those are