Posts Tagged ‘copyright’

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 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

Digital Music Intermediation Part 2

By jambrose | Digital Music, Media Technology, Social Media

Wilfred Dolfsma is assistant professor of Innovation Management at the Rotterdam School of Management in The Netherlands. In his paper “How will the Music Industry Weather the Globalization Storm” (2000), Dolfsma examines the institution of copyright and how information and communication technology will impact its structure in the years following 2000. In this “institutional economic