Canadian Heritage committee  I'll be quick, but to address your first question, today BCE contributes, I think, $900 million a year; 30% of our media business revenues are reinvested in Canadian programming, which ultimately the artists and actors share in; and 5% of our broadcasting distribution revenues ar

Canadian Heritage committee  I'll start. Certainly we can win the war against piracy, if we're provided with the right tools to win that war. As I said earlier, there are over 40 countries around the world that have recognized and are confronting the same piracy problem we're confronting. The solution that

Canadian Heritage committee  I would echo the comments that have been made.

Canadian Heritage committee  I would just add to your last point that while the notice and notice regime is an imperfect remedy in the sense that it doesn't address streaming—it addresses downloads, as Pam said—it does, I think, play an important role in educating the consumers who receive those notices that

Canadian Heritage committee  Well, we get requests to send notices to infringers from content owners, both inside and outside of Canada, if that's your question.

Canadian Heritage committee  If we didn't comply with the notice and notice regime, yes, we'd be subject to penalties, but we comply. Like Rogers, we send out millions of notices every year. We comply with the regime.

Canadian Heritage committee  I'll try to break down what I think your question is. You're right that today we find ourselves in a regulated ecosystem that is much different from the unregulated ecosystem with which we compete. I guess our perspective on it is not necessarily to look to the ISPs to contribu

Canadian Heritage committee  Certainly any traffic that travels on the broadband pipe is good for business, but the other perspective is all of that traffic on the broadband pipe requires continuous investment in building out that network in order to be able to serve the appetites of viewers—

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes.

Canadian Heritage committee  What he described was the retransmission regime whereby U.S. border stations are authorized under the current Copyright Act to be retransmitted by cable and satellite providers like Rogers and Bell.

Canadian Heritage committee  Copyright royalties are payable every time a signal is retransmitted, so there is a payment in the form of copyright royalties, and there is a legal right to retransmit those signals. Our perspective as the largest operator of Canadian over-the-air television stations is that if

Canadian Heritage committee  There are numerous examples in other countries of regimes that allow for intermediaries to block access to pirated content. I think in the FairPlay application, we cited 47 other countries that have those regimes in place to help protect the remuneration of artists by blocking ac

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you, Madam Chair and honourable committee members. My name is Robert Malcomson. I'm senior vice-president of regulatory affairs at BCE. Thank you for your invitation to provide Bell's views on copyright reform that will help ensure artists and content creators are paid for

Industry committee  I think you're right that education is a key component of making sure consumers understand the implications to the cultural industries of consuming illegal content. Certainly, I think we could collectively do a better job of educating Canadian consumers. I suggested that if in th

Industry committee  You asked what we've been doing in terms of educating enforcement agencies. We've worked for the last year and a half with the CBSA to help them understand how many set-top boxes are being imported into Canada every day, because most of them are made outside of the country and