Industry committee  I'll just say that if it continues to work, then great, but that has to be monitored. Also, as I think we've heard from this fine group of people beside me here, context is really important. What works in one particular scenario today may not be the ideal thing tomorrow, so havin

Industry committee  It's almost a loaded question, and I say that with respect because nobody knows perhaps what will happen. The fact is that artists are being paid less for the same amount of use of their work. If you look at it as a curve, eventually the curve is going to go down. As to whethe

Industry committee  The $33,000 number, yes, it was the average, and I think, yes, if you're a dancer it's well below that. In terms of fair dealing in literature specifically, I'm not an expert on that. I know my colleague here provided some examples of sales and royalty numbers in the visual art

Industry committee  I think that's a question for the artists themselves, as I said, because they are the ones who are going to be affected. To use your example of a musician who puts a song up on YouTube, musicians are making a lot less from a YouTube hit than what they would have received from rad

Industry committee  I can be really brief. I would add to what's already been said. There are definitely rights holders or rights organizations in music and in visual and that kind of thing. Those are the people who administer these types of issues. You also, and I tried to say this off the top, sho

Industry committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thanks to the clerk for accommodating us. My name is Dominic Lloyd, and I have been managing arts funding programs with the Winnipeg Arts Council for eight years now, prior to which I worked in the Canadian music industry for almost a dozen years. The imp