12 December 2003
Canada Deems P2P Downloading Legal
Posted by Zane under: News .
Very interesting.
In a ruling released Friday, copyright regulators in Canada said downloading copyrighted music from peer-to-peer networks appears to be legal under Canadian law but that uploading is still prohibited. In the same decision, the Copyright Board of Canada imposed a government fee of as much as $25 on iPod-like MP3 players, putting the devices in the same category as audio tapes and blank CDs. The money collected from levies on “recording mediums” goes into a fund to pay musicians and songwriters for revenues lost from consumers’ personal copying. Manufacturers are responsible for paying the fees and often pass the cost on to consumers.
Personally I feel that adding a governmental fee to MP3 players, blank tapes, CDs, DVDs, etc. is a great idea.
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