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Industry committee  I don't know how much time is left, but I will try to answer in 30 seconds. Spotify and commercial radio are two completely different technologies, and the way they calculate royalties owed on music is very different. One of the reasons why Canadian artists are so badly compens

November 28th, 2018Committee meeting

Marcel Boyer

Industry committee  Of course, every product is different, but the underlying principles used to calculate royalties should be the same. All products are different in economic terms, including the various forms of artistic expression which comprise the goods or assets under copyright. That said, th

November 28th, 2018Committee meeting

Marcel Boyer

Industry committee  Absolutely, and they've worked on fair use in terms of reproduction for private use. I can make a copy for my private use for research purposes and someone will pay for that, such as equipment suppliers. The equipment supplier who helps me to make copies for research purposes wi

November 28th, 2018Committee meeting

Marcel Boyer

Industry committee  I believe that fair use should be defined legally and thoroughly to avoid useless legal battles. The economic problem, fundamentally, is that fair use is a type of expropriation of the creators' intellectual property. We have to find a way to compensate fair use. Some might thin

November 28th, 2018Committee meeting

Marcel Boyer

Industry committee  It's going to be difficult, because it needs changes in different laws, I guess, which is a field I don't really understand because I'm not a lawyer. It's clear that if you want to implement the competitive market value of music on commercial radio as estimated from the behaviour

November 28th, 2018Committee meeting

Marcel Boyer

November 28th, 2018Committee meeting

Marcel Boyer

Industry committee  Absolutely.

November 28th, 2018Committee meeting

Marcel Boyer

Industry committee  Thank you very much for the invitation. Conflict exists between creators and users. Obviously, creators want to benefit from the value their creations generate for users. Users want to minimize payment for such inputs in order to channel savings towards other means of reaching t

November 28th, 2018Committee meeting

Marcel Boyer