Post Tagged with: "CRIA"

IFPI Reports Canadian Music Sales Up in 2005

The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), the global recording industry association, has just released its mid-term report for 2005.  In addition to the continuing success of the fee-based music download services, the report indicates that Canadian sales are up in 2005.  While the increase is not enormous at […]

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October 3, 2005 3 comments News

The Onion, CRIA Edition

While we were participating in a great launch of In the Public Interest, CRIA was across town promoting two new surveys that seek to link seemingly all teenager problems and recording industry woes with file sharing.  It is tempting to conduct a detailed analysis on how off-base these two new […]

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September 30, 2005 4 comments News

The Telecom and Copyright Policy Review?

Reply comments in the Telecommunications Policy Review were due on Thursday and the deadline brought yet another avalanche of submissions.  The first round generated over 100 submissions (mine here) and thousands of pages of reading material.  I decided to skip providing a reply since just reading all the submissions seems […]

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September 17, 2005 1 comment News

CRIA and Kazaa

CRIA' s reaction to the Kazaa ruling provides a helpful advance preview of its likely comments before the parliamentary committee reviewing Bill C-60.  The release applauds the Kazaa decision (CRIA was ready for this one as its PR firm emailed journalists on Friday with offers to comment on the decision), […]

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September 6, 2005 10 comments News

Under Pressure

Readers of this blog may recall my June response to Graham Henderson of CRIA, who wrote a letter to the editor in which he suggested that I have a "vendetta against the recording industry" and exhibit an attack dog mentality.  The Ryerson Review of Journalism has just published an article […]

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August 10, 2005 2 comments News