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Why Copyright Reform Is Not the Cure for What Ails the Music Industry: Sources & Background Material
The Daily Digital Lock Dissenter, Day 26: Canadian Association of Media Education Associations
The Canadian Association of Media Education Associations is an association of Canadian media literacy groups from across Canada. The goal of CAMEO, through its member organizations, is to advocate, promote and develop media literacy in Canada. It provided a submission to the copyright consultation and had the following to say […]
Daily Digital Lock Dissenter, Day 25: Canadian Assoc of Music Libraries, Archives and Doc Centres
The Canadian Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres represents librarians, archivists, educators and researchers in the field of music. Members are drawn from universities, colleges, Library and Archives Canada, provincial archives, music conservatories, orchestra and radio libraries, the Canadian Music Centre, the Canadian National Institute for the Blind […]
Why Copyright Reform Is Not the Cure for What Ails the Music Industry
This weekend, I was pleased to deliver a keynote address at the Nova Scotia Music Week conference. While groups like CRIA (Music Canada) position themselves as industry-wide representatives, discussions with many in the industry in Nova Scotia revealed considerable disagreement. My talk – Why Copyright Reform Is Not the Cure for What Ails the Music Industry – focused on CRIA’s conventional talking points and assessed Bill C-11 provisions on statutory damages, ISP liability, the enabler provision, and digital locks. See this post for links to the supporting documents, additional articles and sources on each issue.
The Daily Digital Lock Dissenter, Day 24: Federation Etudiante Universitaire du Quebec
The Federation of University Students of Quebec represents 15 member associations and roughly 125,000 students in Quebec. In its submission on Bill C-32, it added its voice to the criticism of digital lock rules, noting that the regulation making process for new exceptions is insufficient and that new exceptions should […]
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