Canadian Copyright Board Says P2P Downloads Are Legal
The Copyright Board of Canada on Saturday announced that the downloading of
copyrighted material from peer-to-peer music networks is not illegal, in a marked
departure from the prevailing international attitudes with regard to this practice. However, it also announced that the uploading of music files to such services
will be considered an illegal act. In its statement of levies to be collected by the Canadian Private Copying
Collective (CPCC) on the sale, in Canada, of blank audio recording media for
the years 2003 and 2004, the Copyright Board announced that it will be imposing
a tariffs on MP3 players such as Apple's iPod, the revenue from which will be
used to compensate musicians and songwriters for lost earnings as a result of
copying. The tariffs are to be imposed on a sliding scale, according to the memory capacity
of the player in question. The CBC also revealed that the existing levies on other recording media such
as tapes, CD-Rs, CD-RWs, and MiniDiscs will remain at the same levels until
the end of 2004. .
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