The Copyright Board of Canada has issued its decision involving SOCAN's application for a ten percent royalty on ringtones. The application was opposed by CRIA and the telcos (I wrote about the issue in 2004). The Board awarded six percent. More once I read the decision (Hat Tip: Howard Knopf).
Copyright Board Issues Ringtone Decision
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Presumably you will be opposed to any payment for songwriters, as per your usual anti-creator bias. I’ve looked all over your site,St. Michael – where is your disclosure of the money you’ve taken from commercial web sites such as Amazon? from Telcos? You hold your enemies to a very high standard. You portray everyone who speaks for creators as crooked and corrupt. How about you come clean on your consulting contracts, Prof?
Sorry, we don’t feed the trolls here. Move along Observer, move along.