Archive for the ‘Legal Studies’ Category

HNIC Theme Song Emotional Reaction

By jambrose | Legal Studies

Do I care if CBC spends more money on a song?  Yes, if it’s good value.  My thoughts on the news that the CBC may not renew its contract for the HNIC theme song.  There is no doubt that the CBC would be perfectly happy maintaining the brand image of HNIC by keeping the fabled theme song.

Is File-Sharing Legal in Canada? (Grand Finale)

By jambrose | Digital Music, Legal Studies

Sorry for the delay. Stop biting your nails, curl up in a comfortable chair with a hot cup of tea and read this final chapter of my essay. So the Federal Court of Appeal made it clear that the area of downloading, hard drives and file sharing remains a very grey area. In future cases,

Is File-Sharing Legal in Canada? (Part 4)

By jambrose | Digital Music, Legal Studies, Media Technology

Please see (Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3) Part 3 ended with the trial judge explaining that copying music was ok, since we Canadians have to pay a tax on blank CDs that is supposed to be distributed to labels to mitigate the monetary loss made possible by the public’s God-given right to do

Is File-Sharing Legal in Canada? (Part 3)

By jambrose | Digital Music, Legal Studies, Media Technology

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

Is File-Sharing Legal in Canada? (Part 2)

By jambrose | Digital Music, Legal Studies, Media Technology

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