Yesterday I had the pleasure of appearing on CBC's Sounds Like Canada for an interview with host Shelagh Rogers. A podcast of the interview is available here.
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January 17, 2008
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I listened to your podcast — it was mostly great. However, you said that it isn’t clear under the current law whether it’s legal to copy music to an iPod. Surely that’s not right: I can’t see how this wouldn’t follow from the private copying right.
Can you point out reasons why you think this is in question?