Industry committee  Perhaps I can add to this. I believe SOCAN has about 5,000 publisher members. Most of them are small to extremely small businesses. The copyrights they control that creators have asked them to administer or promote are their assets. The shorter duration of the Canadian term of p

Industry committee  Clearly, we support charitable causes. Our members—Canada's creators and music publishers—are the first to provide free licences for benefit concerts in cases such as the Calgary floods or the Lac-Mégantic tragedy. However, the charitable objective of certain organizations is l

Industry committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Good afternoon, members of the committee. My name is Eric Baptiste, and I am the chief executive officer of SOCAN. I am joined this morning by Gilles Daigle, SOCAN's general counsel. SOCAN is a society that administers public performance rights o