Industry committee  There are three consequences, in my opinion. First, an exercise to reform the Copyright Board of Canada is underway in another forum, and some of us here are involved in that. Briefs and specific recommendations have been submitted in that forum. Further, I can tell you that th

Industry committee  It's not that the solution isn't there, it's that I always wonder about the role of the coalition compared to the role of each of the sectors. I would strongly suggest you ask this question to the Copibecs and Access Copyrights of the world. They will be able to give you an answe

Industry committee  I would tend to say that it's all about them. This comes back to a point I raised earlier: at the root, we must ask ourselves what the primary function of the act is. It would be a trap to ask ourselves what a nice balance would be and to decide to reduce the 70 exceptions to 3

Industry committee  I think you're talking about what we call the value gap. We use this term in the digital world, particularly in music, but in other areas as well. You talked about oligarchy, individual actors who generate a lot of income by taking advantage of assets, in this case creation, belo

Industry committee  The question answers itself. I spoke earlier about the urgency of restoring equity to our digital world. You have suppliers like Tou.tv and Vidéotron, with Illico. When I rent a movie on Illico, I pay the tax, but when I do it on Apple TV or Netflix, I don't. It's nonsense.

Industry committee  In the introduction to my presentation, I told you that we had discovered exceptions introduced in 2012 that hurt and reduced our income. This income was fixed either by an administrative tribunal whose function is to assign an economic value to a right, or during free negotiatio

Industry committee  I will continue along those lines and respond to your comment. Each of the artists and creators is quite pro-choice. If they want to give their work for free, they will do so, and if they want to give it at a ridiculously low price or if they want to opt for an open-access progr

Industry committee  Whether it's the big guys in this world or the companies that make billions of dollars, if the legislation is clear, they'll sit at the bargaining table. If they have a right to release or licences to obtain from certain people, or with respect to the assets they use, they will b

Industry committee  Yes. There are a few, in fact. However, understand my situation. I'm not talking on my own behalf or on behalf of my company; I'm speaking on behalf of a coalition. So I'm not speaking for one sector, but for all sectors. There is the exception of network services. In fact, the

Industry committee  Thank you very much. I am here on behalf of the Coalition for Culture and Media, which is a group of organizations involved in the cultural and media environment, representing hundreds of thousands of creators, publishers and producers in Canada. Those organizations have identi