Is File-Sharing Legal in Canada? (Part 3)
March 21st, 2008
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 on the sale of these items. (CBOC, 2003) The point of the Private Copying amendment is to allow an individual to make copies of protected material strictly for their own use, while still paying artists for their work. This money is collected via a levy placed on blank media that is collected by the Canadian Private Copying Collective (CPCC) as royalties. Read more…
