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Industry committee  I'll go. That surprises me. I'm not sure I understand that data point. Did you say it's 11 times lower than the equivalent rate in the U.S.?

November 26th, 2018Committee meeting

Darren Schmidt

Industry committee  I think you might be talking about Re:Sound, which we don't utilize.

November 26th, 2018Committee meeting

Darren Schmidt

Industry committee  It's the same with Spotify.

November 26th, 2018Committee meeting

Darren Schmidt

Industry committee  What territory is this in?

November 26th, 2018Committee meeting

Darren Schmidt

Industry committee  Well, first of all, I wasn't aware that it went up two dollars. You just told me something I didn't know. When prices go up, as they do in various territories around the world at various times due to inflation and other reasons, that revenue is accounted for in our licence agree

November 26th, 2018Committee meeting

Darren Schmidt

Industry committee  I wasn't at Spotify then, but I do know anecdotally that the licensing landscape in Canada was difficult at the time, particularly—

November 26th, 2018Committee meeting

Darren Schmidt

Industry committee  —on the music publishing side of things. I think I talked in my opening statement about the issue of fragmentation of rights. On the mechanical rights side in particular, it's difficult in Canada to get a full coverage of rights when you're licensing from an entity like CSI whic

November 26th, 2018Committee meeting

Darren Schmidt

Industry committee  I will, absolutely.

November 26th, 2018Committee meeting

Darren Schmidt

Industry committee  To start with, I want to apologize if you did not get a response to this question after our first committee hearing. We sent a letter to the committee. I don't know if you saw it. We sent a detailed response to this question, among others. I don't have that response handy, that l

November 26th, 2018Committee meeting

Darren Schmidt

Industry committee  —so now, I'm sorry to say, I need to operate on some memory about what was said—

November 26th, 2018Committee meeting

Darren Schmidt

Industry committee  I want to stress that I don't know the mechanics, unfortunately, of how radio airplay gets paid in Canada. All I know is how Spotify pays. Also, I should say that we don't typically have relationships directly.... I know this is frustrating to hear. I don't know what happens in t

November 26th, 2018Committee meeting

Darren Schmidt

Industry committee  Without talking about Drake in particular, I think it's fair to say that if lots more people are listening to some piece of music versus another, the first one would make more money. That's correct.

November 26th, 2018Committee meeting

Darren Schmidt

Industry committee  I think there's a misunderstanding here in the idea that we have a per-stream royalty at all. For the most part, that's not true. We have hundreds of licence agreements. I have to generalize somewhat because they're all somewhat different, but there are certain commonalities in

November 26th, 2018Committee meeting

Darren Schmidt

Industry committee  Could you restate the question a little bit? I'm not sure I follow the if and then.

November 26th, 2018Committee meeting

Darren Schmidt

Industry committee  It is possible that what you're talking about would result in greater cost to consumers. We don't tend to look at it that way. The way we look at it is that despite having 87 million paying subscribers on the service today, we're in the very beginning of what's happening. More

November 26th, 2018Committee meeting

Darren Schmidt