Post Tagged with: "CRIA"

CMRRA and CRIA Strike New Licensing Deal

The Canadian Musical Reproduction Rights Agency Ltd. and CRIA have entered into a new mechanical licensing agreement that runs until 2012.

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November 13, 2007 Comments are Disabled News

CRIA Sings Same Song in Private Copying Submission

Readers of this blog will recall that CRIA broke from the Canadian Private Copying Collective earlier this fall by seeking leave to intervene in a federal court case where it will oppose the expansion of the private copying levy. CRIA identified seven objections to the Copyright Board's iPod levy decision, […]

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November 13, 2007 7 comments News

Demonoid Shuts Down Again

Several reports (1, 2, 3) point to another shut down of Demonoid, which has faced significant legal pressure from CRIA.

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November 9, 2007 2 comments News

Statistics Canada Reports Canadian Music Industry Turning Healthy Profit

The official Canadian Music Week won't take place until March in Toronto, but this week the Canadian government has staged its own Canadian music week.  Days after the release of the Industry Canada commissioned study on the correlation between P2P and CD sales, Statistics Canada has just released a report […]

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November 7, 2007 11 comments News

Straight Talk at the CAB, Part One

If the Industry Canada study were not enough, CRIA has another explosive issue to address.  Late Sunday, the Canadian Association of Broadcasters passed a unanimous resolution opposing CRIA's proposal for a new reproduction right tariff that it says will cost the industry an additional $50 million per year.  The resolution […]

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November 5, 2007 Comments are Disabled News