CRIA's Graham Henderson has told Reuters that the Songwriters Association of Canada's proposal to fully legalize P2P is a "pipe dream" and that CRIA is reluctant to get involved.
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Canadian Digital Music Sales Outperform the U.S. – Again
Nielsen SoundScan Canada is out today with the 2007 Canadian music sales data. Despite the repeated sky-is-falling claims from CRIA, the actual data keeps telling a different story. In 2006, Canadian digital music sales grew at 122 percent, far faster than either the U.S. or Europe. Over the past twelve […]
Why Canada Needs More Flexible Fair Dealing
Several people have pointed to the excellent new report from the Center for Social Media on quoting copyrighted material in user-generated video. The report provides another illustration of why Canada needs more flexible fair dealing since some of the fair uses would not be applicable here. In other words, Canadians […]
Sony Recommends DRM Circumvention
Ars Technica points out that Sony, the last DRM holdout, is now advising users how to circumvent its own DRM.
Public Domain Day 2008
Wallace returns with his annual public domain day list, concluding that "it's your past, your cultural heritage, your public domain. Promote it, celebrate it, and use it, or we will lose it."
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