Industry committee  I'll get it out of the way very quickly. On the sole issue that I'm talking about, which is the definition of sound recording, we're quite content and in favour of the committee leaving it undisturbed.

Industry committee  In the material file by Music Canada, I think they estimated the cost of these additional royalties to both broadcasters and exhibitors would be somewhere in the order of $45 million. There's no citation provided for that number. I don't know if it's greater or less than, but tha

Industry committee  I don't know if I can comment on the administrative burden.

Industry committee  As I said, it's not news to anybody that we pay tariffs to certain collectives. I'm saying that I expect it would be organized in a very similar way, but it really would depend on which collective we're dealing with and what is actually being asked of us. In this particular circu

Industry committee  Yes, of course, and that's a great question. We have a number of competitive disadvantages, not the least of which is that Netflix doesn't pay tax here, so there's that. There is the other added cost that Netflix doesn't necessarily pay film classification fees, all the costs tha

Industry committee  Yes, it absolutely will kill jobs—and cinemas.

Industry committee  To give you a really short response, this would be an additional operating cost, a higher operating cost. I'm not in a position right now to tell you or quantify what that would be. We're responding to the proposal as it is now. In terms of talking about what it would be for ot

Industry committee  That's currently the balance that is struck.

Industry committee  That is what it is right now. It's also the same, for example, for a dancer who choreographs a routine. For that person, the approach in the law to date has been that you can charge the rental rate up front, but you're not permitted to exercise the remuneration in the act when i

Industry committee  Sure. The section I'm referring to here, just for reference, is section 19. You're going to test my memory here, but the section, as I recall, refers to any sort of public communication or communication of the work by telecommunication. I don't act for a streaming service and I'm

Industry committee  I can speak to Cineplex. We're talking of tens of thousands.

Industry committee  They're asking to remove from the definition of “sound recording” the exception for film soundtracks where they accompany a film. The sound recording is different from a song in the sense that a sound recording is exactly what I've suggested to you. The sound of an explosion or a

Industry committee  I know I said I was only going to talk about one issue, but I can respond to this just a little bit. MTAC is a member of the FairPlay coalition, and we do support that initiative quite strongly. On the proposal, as I understand it, the comment earlier was that the Copyright Act

Industry committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Good afternoon, Mr. Chair and honourable members. I'm here on behalf of the Movie Theatre Association of Canada, which I might interchangeably refer to as MTAC for short today. We are the trade organization representing the interests of film exhi