Industry committee  My understanding is that, when they're paying their neighbouring rights, the secret in getting paid is making sure that they're providing the metadata and the titles for each one of those titles. Then there will be payments

Industry committee  It's all coming down to good metadata.

Industry committee  I am not working for them now. However, as a parent, every week I pay to send my kids to OFSAA for field hockey, to the Science Centre, to have additional things that they need in school. I would expect that when a school is looking at paying their teachers, and paying their hyd

Industry committee  Music Canada is.

Industry committee  That is one consideration. Then, to Mr. Baylis's point—I've been reading additionally while I've been here—if we're not able to have the services come to the table and negotiate, we need to look at the ISPs that are profiting over these services and to actually licence them.

Industry committee  There are some countries that are providing for that payment to the musicians. Within Canada, we have a double standard. Composers get paid through SOCAN on an ongoing basis, yet the musicians who play the works of those composers don't get paid on an ongoing basis.

Industry committee  There's a difference between being a composer versus a musician in Canada. Plus, in those other territories—

Industry committee  And not everyone can tour. At certain points in your career, you can't be touring if you have a family and you need to be turning to the next part of your life. You need to recreate yourself, and touring may not be the thing you can do.

Industry committee  I think there is some interesting information on this in the report that was released earlier this week and the announcement about the review of the broadcasting and telecommunication acts. There was put forward the need for a discussion about Canadian content and French language

Industry committee  I have to disclose that I worked for Access Copyright for 10 years as a consultant and as an employee.

Industry committee  It allows us to continue what we've been doing for the last 12 years: investing in songwriters and taking those songwriters around the world. My chairman, who is a songwriter, never appears on stage and can't play an instrument, but he is a phenomenally internationally well-know

Industry committee  I can speak about the performers and songwriters. Looking at all the songwriter and composer data for Canadian companies, and for money flowing through SOCAN and the other collectives, we estimated that it's about $700 million on the songwriters' side for Canadian participants.

Industry committee  It would be over $1 billion.

Industry committee  For our members, over 50% is coming from performance. Then, about 35% is coming from mechanical; that's the copies that are being made by these services. The growth area for our members is called synchronization, where they're looking to put a song into a commercial or a movie or

Industry committee  Just to clarify, everybody's revenue has gone down.