Professor Geist's regular Toronto Star Law Bytes column (Toronto Star version, HTML backup article, homepage version) examines the viability of blanket license for peer-to-peer file sharing in Canada. The column argues that Canada might provide an ideal testing ground for such an approach given the prior experience with collective licensing and the potential to develop a finely-targeted scheme that provides appropriate compensation to the music community.
Is Canada Ready for a P2P License?
March 8, 2004
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