Please see (Part 1 and Part 2) Part 2 ended with the judge suggesting that file-sharing in this case, was not copyright infringement at all… The Copyright Board of Canada in 2003 amended the Copyright Act’s section on private copying to include language for better definition of an “audio recording medium” and to define levies
It only took the government 50 or so years to finally do something about major labels monopolizing radio by paying off the radio stations. Why would they do that? Limit consumer choice, squash the indies. Fast-forward to tonight’s news. Rumour has it that the Apple is pitching the labels on a flat license that allows
I attended the SXSW Interactive Conference in Austin, Texas last week. I was very unfortunately unable to attend the music portion of the festival, but from what I hear it was more doom, gloom and whining from the major labels. CD sales are down again this year. I do feel for the artist that simply
Part one of this essay ended with the CRIA (Canadian Recording Industry Association) was putting forth a motion to force ISPs to give up the names of P2P file-sharers. On this motion, the CRIA provided an affidavit from Gary Millin, President of MediaSentry, a company that specializes in detecting the distribution of materials on P2P
Short answer: yes. Well, it is more accurate to say that file-sharing is not illegal in Canada. In 2005, I wrote and essay: “Copyright v. Privacy: A Review of the Legal War Between Record Labels and File Sharing from a Canadian Perspective”. I am going to review it here, in my blog and discuss what