The dissemination of content which is protected by copyright and related rights, including books, audiovisual productions and recorded music, and services linked thereto, requires the licensing of rights by different holders of copyright and related rights, such as authors, performers, producers and publishers.

Commission Recommendation 2005/737/EC promoted a new regulatory environment better suited to the management, at Union level, of copyright and related rights for the provision of legitimate online music services.

Those rights may be managed by the individual rightholders themselves, such as authors or music publishers, or by collective management organisations that provide collective management services to rightholders.

Honourable senators, we all know many great francophones from minority communities who have left their mark or are still leaving their mark on Canada, people like chemist Raymond Urgel Lemieux from Alberta, who discovered sucrose; Yseult Friolet from British Columbia, who has been directing the francophone federation of that province for such a long time and who tends to the linguistic rights of the 65,000 francophones there; Professor Joseph-Henri Blanchard, a great defender of the Acadians; Angèle Arsenault, a singer-songwriter; and Marc Mongeau, an illustrator, all three from Prince Edward Island; and from Manitoba, architect Éti ...[+++]enne Gaboury, singer-songwriter Daniel Lavoie, politician Louis Riel, writer Gabrielle Roy and our late Speaker of the Senate, Gildas Molgat.

2. The term of protection of cinematographic or audiovisual works shall expire 70 years after the death of the last of the following persons to survive, whether or not these persons are designated as co-authors: the principal director, the author of the screenplay, the author of the dialogue and the composer of music specifically created for use in the cinematographic or audiovisual work.

I'm a SOCAN director and a classical music composer.