Appeared in the Toronto Star on October 15, 2007 as Music Industry Needs Innovation Not Intervention Appeared in the Tyee on October 16, 2007 as Music Biz Wants Crackdown In the weeks leading up to tomorrow's Speech from the Throne, several music industry lobby groups have urged the government to […]
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As MPs prepare for a new Parliamentary session next week, sources indicate that Liberal MP Dan McTeague is promoting a new IP and Anti-Counterfeiting Caucus. In a letter to MPs, McTeague points to the recent Committee reports on counterfeiting and argues that: From the findings of these reports and from […]
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