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
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