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Canada’s recording industry is threatening to launch legal action against Canadian Internet users who illegally share music files online. According to CRIA, which represents Canada’s major record labels, sales of compact discs in Canada have fallen by $450 million, or 23 per cent since 1999.
In September, the Recording Industry Association of America launched 261 lawsuits against users who uploaded or shared files using software like Kazaa. But there are some doubts about whether similar lawsuits would be successful here, since Canadian laws on reproducing music for personal use differ.
For example, it has been legal in Canada since 1998 to make a single copy of a recording for personal use, such as copying a CD onto your hard drive or MP3 player. But the practice is illegal in the U.S.
“As far as computer hard drives are concerned, we say that for the time being, it is still legal,” said Claude Majeau, secretary general of the Copyright Board.
But under the Copyright Act, it remains illegal to give or sell a CD copy to a friend, since it’s not for personal use. In the same vein, distributing copies to friends online is prohibited.
Last week, the Copyright Board of Canada gave the go-ahead on a new levy for MP3 digital audio recorders with non-removable memory. The board ordered tariff of up to $25 be applied to recorders, depending on the size of their memory.
Meanwhile, SOCAN, the Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada, is arguing before the Supreme Court of Canada that Internet service providers should pay a blanket royalty fee since so many users are downloading music.
They say that because of illegal downloads of copyrighted content, ISPs should pay a blanket annual royalty — regardless of whether the ISP is transmitting legal or illegally downloaded music.
Sources: CTV Canada, CNET News
So the message here for Canadians is: Uploading will get you sued, but Downloading is ok…for now.
When will the music industry learn:confused: Sure they are loosing some money from some file sharing technologies out there but, that isn’t the only reason. The quaility of music has gone down, I’m tired of buying CDs only to find one song I like and the rest of the CD to be total crap.
Instead of fighting new technology they need to learn to embrace the new technology. So what the music isn’t on a shinny 5 inch disk. Just like the radio stations that play music have to pay royalties to the recording industry, there should be a royalty fee for downloading music. So companies that provide file sharing services like Kazza and Napster pay royalties like everyone other business that uses music.
Suing users isn’t working, suing file sharing services like Kazza and Napster isn’t working. It’s time the music industry stops blaming file sharing services for the public’s interest in not buying CDs and look at what they are really trying to sell us.
Tracer: I love you.
in a totally heterosexual way.
the music quality that record labels are putting out into the public is INDEED very very poor right now. or at least poorer than it used to once be. Where’s all the zepplins? Where’s all the indie rock bands? Wheres all the quality?
it’s being destroyed and covered up by the evil anti-dolphin society some people call rap.
*hides from rap fans*
where’s all the originality in songs gone? also…now artists are more concerned about money than the music. Artists are slapping together 10 crappier-beyond-hell songs with 1 semi-good-hit-song to make: another money source.
record labels only care about money now. Which artist has the most talent? Which artist will indeed succeed if given time? They don’t care: they go for what the general public has eaten up like starved hot-dog loving chiuawas, which is rap, hip-hop, and so called “punk rock”, which isn’t even actual punk rock.
Oh, and while i’m still on a roll: justin timberlake can go to hell.
i dont need a reason for saying that. really…i dont.
and hey, the record labels say, while we’re releasing really, really, worse-than-justin-timberlake albums, why don’t we make some “best-of” albums for some artists? Yeah, yeah! That would be a hoot! And we could make like, three best albums! Then we could have, like, the best-of-the-best-of albums, and that would be, like, the king of the best-of albums! That would be SO COOL!
ooh, i didn’t even get started. but i’ll stop myself at that.
ahh, that felt better.
Tru flamin guns, most albums r crap with 1 or 2 good songs. The last 4 or 5 of albums i have bought have been crap. Hopefully the music on albums will pick up again soon and treat us to some quality tunes
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