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The arrival of the winter season doesn’t mean your copyright collective has slowed down the pace of our work. Members of our team were in attendance at the Salon du livre de Montréal in support of authors and their publishers in their efforts to push for a Copyright Act that takes their interests into account. Over 250 people were actively involved in asking the federal government to update the Act so that educational institutions pay a fair price when they use excerpts from copyrighted content in class.
These mobilization efforts also attracted attention from the media. For example, I was a guest on the TV program RDI Économie. Caroline Lacroix, our Communications and Rightsholder Services Director, participated in the radio program Les Effrontés and author Geneviève Blouin, our spokesperson, was on ICI Première’s program Désautels le dimanche. In addition, Geneviève and author Bryan Perro were interviewed by various print media about this issue, including La Presse canadienne, La Presse, L’actualité, Le Soleil and L'ActuaLitté.
In conjunction with those efforts, we’re continuing our day-to-day work such as distributing royalties. Over $1.4 million was paid out in the lump sum (repertoire) payment for books.
We’ll soon be doing the education sector royalty distribution, our largest of the year. On an exceptional basis, it will be divided in two. Payments for content reproduced by elementary, high school and college institutions as well as ministry exams will be completed by year end. Royalties for content reproduced by universities will be distributed early in 2020. At the same time, we’ll pay out the amounts received from Université Laval in the wake of our lawsuit that was settled out of court in November 2018.
At the team level, the time has come to say goodbye to Rémi Charest, education sector assistant, who has moved on to other challenges. We’d like to wish him much success in his new endeavours.
In October, our team welcomed Bayard Donkou, our new IT analyst-advisor. He has extensive experience in developing applications and designing, deploying and administering extended networks.
And our most recent new hire is Morgane Chaffiraud, education sector assistant. She will take over from Xavier Daffe-Bordeleau to handle requests for accessible digital content. We’re pleased to welcome both of our new recruits!
With the Holidays fast approaching, please note that our office will be closed starting on Thursday, December 19. Our team will be back at work on Monday, January 6, 2020. For now, all that’s left is to wish you all a joyous holiday season and a Happy New Year.
Frédérique Couette
Executive Director
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