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Industry committee  I just want to say that I misspoke about the URL for the transparency report. Just for the record, it's transparency.facebook.com. There you'll find the latest copyright data.

November 26th, 2018Committee meeting

Kevin Chan

Industry committee  I guess it's going to be me. As I concluded in the opening statement, we do appreciate the fact that Canada actually has a pretty robust and balanced copyright system. We think that the balance is struck pretty well between rights holders and users and folks who want to innovat

November 26th, 2018Committee meeting

Kevin Chan

Industry committee  We will double-check on our end, but I have to admit that one of our strengths actually has been that we have sort of a one-interface process at Facebook. Regardless of whether you access it on an iPad or a phone or your desktop, it is going to be the same experience for the user

November 26th, 2018Committee meeting

Kevin Chan

Industry committee  I think first and foremost, as I alluded to at the beginning, Facebook is a platform where largely people can get discovered and they can find fans, new fans, and that actually is of tremendous value not just to artists and creators but to NGOs, including also politicians, as you

November 26th, 2018Committee meeting

Kevin Chan

Industry committee  Again, in our transparency report that we just published a few weeks ago, we do spell out in detail the number of requests we're getting. I think you can see it at facebook.com/transparency. I think that's the URL. It's something like that. Globally, we had about half a million

November 26th, 2018Committee meeting

Kevin Chan

Industry committee  It could be multiple requests, or one request where we find multiple copies on the platform.

November 26th, 2018Committee meeting

Kevin Chan

Industry committee  Thank you for the question. Do you mean that when a broadcaster puts a show of their own volition on Facebook, should we not think about ways to compensate them for that?

November 26th, 2018Committee meeting

Kevin Chan

Industry committee  Without alluding to too many specifics of the future, I think you're right that what we want to do is find new ways of compensating various entities that have presences on Facebook. I think around the world we have experimented with things like ad breaks for videos, almost like a

November 26th, 2018Committee meeting

Kevin Chan

Industry committee  That's correct. What we have indicated is that by the end of 2019 we will move to what's called “a local reseller model”, where we are going to have a base of operations in Canada such that the taxes that we pay, based on revenue that we make in Canada from the sales team in Cana

November 26th, 2018Committee meeting

Kevin Chan

Industry committee  I'd have to check on the precise mechanics of it, but certainly the sales team in Toronto—

November 26th, 2018Committee meeting

Kevin Chan

Industry committee  Yes. Because we're moving to this model, it means that it becomes subject to a value-added tax like the HST or the PST.

November 26th, 2018Committee meeting

Kevin Chan

Industry committee  I would just say, once again, that our enforcement of any kind of illicit or infringing content is pretty good where it stands. You'll know, sir, that in terms of music content, at this point we are removing that content when it is detected or when people report it and it's a val

November 26th, 2018Committee meeting

Kevin Chan

Industry committee  Okay, I see, sir. That's right. I think for the content we're talking about, rights holder content, if it shouldn't be on Facebook—we've talked a lot about music this afternoon—it would be taken down. Obviously if a publisher had, let's say, a firewall around their content on

November 26th, 2018Committee meeting

Kevin Chan

Industry committee  No, sir, we don't really have a comment on it.

November 26th, 2018Committee meeting

Kevin Chan

Industry committee  I'm happy to take that, sir. Thank you. I actually did, in fact, spend a day with the FNC, with their president and a few other people, at a recent conference in Montreal with respect to misinformation and digital literacy, and that proposal was in fact shared with me. The con

November 26th, 2018Committee meeting

Kevin Chan