Post Tagged with: "private copying"

UK PM Responds to Private Copying Petition

The UK Prime Minister's Office has issued a response to a popular e-petition on its site calling for a private copying exception. The response notes the similar Gowers Report conclusion and indicates that the government is considering how to implement the recommendation. This is an interesting development not just for […]

January 18, 2007 — Comments are Disabled — News

UK Group Calls for Personal Copying Right

As EMI's President states that CDs are dead, the UK's The Institute for Public Policy Research is arguing that consumers' rights should be improved with a "new private right to copy." It is also calling on the government to reject demands for the music copyright term to be extended beyond […]

October 30, 2006 — Comments are Disabled — News

Survey Finds Declining P2P Usage in Canada

The Copyright Board of Canada conducted hearings today on the private copying levy. Included as part of the evidence was a major survey (not online at the moment) on music copying conducted for the Canadian Private Copying Collective (CPCC) by Reseau Circum. The CPCC, which counts CRIA General Counsel Richard Pfohl as one of its board members, has tracked music copying habits since 2001-02.

The headliner in the latest survey is that file sharing activity is in steady decline in Canada. The survey, conducted in June 2006, finds that just 14 percent of Canadians have downloaded music in the last 12 months, down from 15 percent in 2005, 19 percent in 2004, 21 percent in 2003, and 21 percent in 2002. It goes without saying that this finding comes despite the absence of lawsuits, the absence of copyright reform, and the continual (yet questionable) claims that Canada is a world leader in file sharing.

October 24, 2006 — 12 comments — News

CMRRA on Private Copying

Last week I posted a note about CRIA’s position on private copying at a recent copyright board hearing. My colleague Jeremy deBeer highlights the CMRRA position, which also raises interesting questions about reconciling seemingly conflicting perspectives about the mix between private copying and DRM.

September 28, 2006 — Comments are Disabled — News

CRIA and Private Copying

CRIA is currently leading a coalition that includes Apple, Bell, Rogers, and Napster in opposing an application for a new tariff for online downloads (I briefly posted on Graham Henderson's appearance before the Copyright Board last week and his startling claim that he had not read Nielson SoundScan data months after he referenced that data in a speech). The lead statement in the case includes a discussion of private copying, after CSI (the group seeking the tariff) sought compensation for the copies that consumers make from digital downloads. CSI argues that the recording industry authorizes consumers to make those copies.

CRIA's response? They say they do no such thing – "the Online Music Services do not 'authorize' any further reproduction of downloads by the consumer." Rather, CRIA notes that:

September 20, 2006 — 3 comments — News