International Trade committee  I would agree with the statements of Mr. Neil. Sometimes I feel, when Dr. Geist says it's a cost to consumers, that somehow creators are supposed to bear all of the costs for consumers and are responsible for making sure that consumers don't spend more. That seems a little bit ou

International Trade committee  I'm not a policy expert or a lawyer. I'll defer to Mr. Neil's more precise understanding. In general terms, though, we're looking for ratification, and we're looking for an unencumbered ratification. We don't want there to be a re-registration process after the 50 years. We would

International Trade committee  In fact, us ratifying our copyright term extensions to theirs creates investment opportunities for Canadian publishers to administer the rights on American copyrights for the full term allowed, whereas, as it stands now, you could have a work approaching public domain, which woul

International Trade committee  Thank you, Madam Chair and honourable members. Apologies for not appearing in person today, but Mother Nature obviously had different plans for us. lt is a privilege to speak with you this afternoon, and, as always, I congratulate the committee for allowing and welcoming input fr

Canadian Heritage committee  I am not quite certain what specific study you're referring to in 2014.

Canadian Heritage committee  What is the title of the study, sir?

Canadian Heritage committee  What I can do is speak generally about how things have changed since 2014. We have done a study. It was done on illegal file sharing, which at this point has sort of been replaced by streaming. This is the rapid speed that we're trying to deal with in what I like to call “disru

Canadian Heritage committee  Good morning, Madam Chair and members of the committee. My name is Greg Johnston. I'm the president of the Songwriters Association of Canada. On behalf of the SAC, I'd like to express our thanks for the invitation and the opportunity to appear before this committee. In addition