Canadian Heritage committee  Madam Chair and members of the committee, thank you for the opportunity to offer you the perspective of the members of the Motion Picture Association-Canada. These include Disney, Netflix, NBCUniversal, Paramount Global, Sony Pictures Entertainment and Warner Bros. Discovery. Gl

Canadian Heritage committee  Well, I think it means that you're building policy for the future here, and that policy needs to be predicated on the fact that these are not the same business models as broadcasters'. They are not producing the same kinds of content. They do not have the same regulatory benefits

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair, and members of the committee. I appreciate the offer to provide you with a shared perspective of the global studios represented by the Motion Picture Association in Canada. These include Walt Disney, ViacomCBS/Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures Entertainment

Industry committee  I think the difficulty is that we're conflating.... We're sort of talking at each other as opposed to having a common understanding. I think what you were getting at earlier was the notice and notice system.

Industry committee  That's what I thought. You can tell I'm used to translating Canadian into American for Americans. Under the notice and notice system, a notice goes to a user of a P2P site—an individual who's been accessing a BitTorrent site. The notices that we send, for example, really are educ

Industry committee  No. Again, I can speak only for my members and our studios. These are educational tools that are going to the individuals who are accessing the BitTorrent sites. That's only for P2P, and it's only an educational tool. I think that's what your original question was. Then, sort o

Industry committee  The different tool that we're talking about today is being able to get injunctive relief, such as site-blocking, against intermediaries. The reason we're quite different from when we were before Mr. Lake before is that we now have close to a decade of experience in the EU and 40

Industry committee  What I have for you today in French and English is about what we know about piracy. I would be happy to provide a compendium of some of the research that has come out of Europe and those other jurisdictions and provide that to the committee as well.

Industry committee  Sure. It's built on what we've seen in Europe that has been impactful. When the act was last amended, the piracy threats that existed at that time did not operate in the way that piracy threats of today operate. This would take the best practices we've seen that have been worki

Industry committee  As I said, we're seeking new tools and are certainly happy to provide any further information to this committee in terms of the legislative tools that we think are important. We also think that educating the public is important. As I said, we consider that part of what we'd lik

Industry committee  I don't offhand, but I'd be happy to provide you with.... There is an online link. It's called “Get It Right from a Genuine Site” or something like that.

Industry committee  There are a bunch of different ones. Again, I'm using that as an example, but what I'm happy to do is to provide you with a couple of different examples of education campaigns that have been undertaken by the public authorities. The U.K. IP office has another of their own. Again,

Industry committee  Yes, I would agree. Notice and notice was something the ISPs had asked for during the last round of reform. It is an educational tool and it is designed only for people who are using P2P sites. As you can see, that's a small component now of the piracy problem, and in addition, s

Industry committee  We represent the MPAA companies here in Canada.

Industry committee  Yes.