Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you. Madam Chair, my name is Erin Finlay, and I'm the Chief Legal Officer of the Canadian Media Producers Association. With me today is Stephen Stohn, President of SkyStone Media and executive producer of the hit televison series Degrassi: Next Class and all previous vers

Industry committee  Thank you. You're talking about suing infringing sites in Canada?

Industry committee  Piracy, specifically, I haven't done for many years. I've been fortunate enough not to be in private practice, so I can't speak to the success rate. I can tell you a bit about the process typically.

Industry committee  One of the obstacles is that currently under our present system we would have to sue, for example, Google, to seek some sort of an injunction, a Mareva injunction or something like that. Google would then defend itself as any defendant would by saying it's not liable. The challen

Industry committee  I never should have said “Google”. It's a search engine.

Industry committee  Not mandatory—and Wendy, absolutely you can jump in—but there are a number of options available. The problem is that we have a very long court process. There's a debate right at the beginning of the court process on whether these are even available to rights holders, so you wind

Industry committee  We've touched on our main requests, but we'll certainly flesh that out in our written submissions, because it is quite detailed, and we'll give some suggestions as to what should happen there.

Industry committee  I'll hand it over to Wendy, but article 8.3 in the InfoSoc Directive out of the EU is the best example, and Wendy has already spoken about that, so that's what we're modelling our request after.

Industry committee  Perhaps I'll start with the broader perspective, and then Stephen can talk about the business model specifically. Here's something to keep in mind. The suggestion that recognizing the directors and screenwriters as authors or first owners of copyright wouldn't upend the market,

Industry committee  I'm sure the producers and creators of Mayday would be thrilled if it were available everywhere, every place that's possible. I can't speak to what the exact example is there.

Industry committee  Is it ethical that you can't...?

Industry committee  Is it ethical to buy something...?

Industry committee  I think we have to be realistic about how rights are managed around the world. Certain buyers and distributors acquire rights for certain territories. That's the way it currently works. Again, every producer and every creator would be happy to have their content available all aro

Industry committee  We'll do it in our written submission.

Industry committee  I can speak to that briefly. We're not saying notice and notice is too onerous. I think that's the ISPs' position on the notice and notice regime. We would say it is useful as an education piece to users, consumers, who aren't aware that they are infringing content, so the notice