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What Goes Downwards Mustn't Come Upward Up Says Canadian Copyright Board

Friend of the IPKat the MediaBeak (who said cats in addition to birds don’t become on?) brought the determination of the Canadian Copyright Board (reported on news.com) to the IPKat’s attention. The Board decided final Fri that uploading of P2P files is outlawed past times Canadian copyright law. However, because the Copyright Act allows earth to brand copies for personal piece of occupation in addition to does non address the source of those copies or whether the master has to live an authorised or non-infringing version, inwards sure as shooting circumstances at least, downloading P2P files may live permissible. The Board too imposed a levy on MP3 players, like to the levy payable on the buy of other recording devices, to brand upwardly for the revenues lost past times artists through personal copying. The determination has non been welcomed past times recording manufacture involvement groups such equally RIAA in addition to remains to live tested inwards the courts.

is puzzled past times this approach. Allowing downloading simply non uploading makes equally much feel to him equally legalising the taking of drugs simply non allowing drugs to live sold – how are the users or downloaders expected to obtain the items that the constabulary has said they are entitled to use? In the long run though, downloaders volition all the same accept to pay for the privilege of downloading, exclusively they are paying inwards advance through the levy on the equipment that enables them to brand piece of occupation of their downloads.

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