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,
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
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