Archive for the ‘Digital Downloads’ Category
Sunday, June 1st, 2008
There are rumours that a new copyright bill is imminent. Copyright issues are increasingly gaining public prominence and there are views of every stripe.
See below for a distinct view by Barry Sookman, copyright expert and co-chair of the Technology Group at McCarthy Tétrault, on the copyright debate as we await the ...
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Saturday, February 23rd, 2008
The Songwriters Association of Canada (SAC) recently proposed legalization of peer-to-peer music filesharing via the imposition of an obligatory $5 monthly fee on all Canadian broadband users. It is estimated that this would result in the collection of $500 million to $900 million per year, to be distributed to musicians ...
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Monday, January 28th, 2008
In October 2007, the Copyright Board of Canada rendered a decision regarding tariffs payable to SOCAN by online music services.[1] As part of the Board’s decision it concluded that music previews do not infringe copyright as they constitute fair dealing for the purpose of research. While I agree in principle ...
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Wednesday, November 14th, 2007
The recent closure of AllofMP3 is coming to an end. The site that was
closed in July 2007 has recently been reopened under another name and site
location. The site that has users pay a flat rate to download music was
thought to be in violation of copyright laws in Russia. However, a ...
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Tuesday, November 13th, 2007
Our ability as a society to transmit vast amounts of information has grown
exponentially over the last decade. Volumes of encyclopedia, books,
magazines, newspapers—let alone music—have become almost instantly
downloadable and retrievable, further feeding the frenzy of electronic
consumption. While to downloaders and users it may seem that there is
little or no real ...
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Tuesday, November 13th, 2007
In the early days of the dot.com boom, internet commerce presented
opportunities for information providers (websites) to sell inexpensive
digital goods to web-users and have the benefit of reaching a far larger
consumer base than just a local market. But with the growing free-rider
ethos of the World Wide Web and the increasingly ...
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Tuesday, November 13th, 2007
Popular Russian online music store Allofmp3.com announced its plans to
reopen following a ruling by a Moscow district court acquitting its former
head of copyright violation. After persistent pressure and attempts by an
angry U.S. recording industry to smother the site, the plug was finally
pulled on the site earlier this year by ...
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Tuesday, November 13th, 2007
Warner Music Group’s (WMG) third-quarter loss widened this year, to US$17 million. Warner is one of several major players in the global music industry being hit hard by the seismic repercussions the internet has held for the music business. Indeed, virtually every industry that distributes their product through ...
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Tuesday, November 13th, 2007
The events of early October, 2007 may herald a new age of respect for intellectual property (IP) rights. The first trial on peer to peer music file sharing pits the major record companies against a woman accused of copyright infringement, an act for which the U.S. Federal Court awarded a ...
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Tuesday, November 13th, 2007
Warner Music Group’s recent announcement about wider losses in the third quarter, due to an increasing trend of consumers switching to digital downloads, highlights the changing nature of the music industry.
Even as Warner posted higher overall losses due largely to the decline in CD sales, its digital revenues were ...
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