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The Canadian Supreme Court

December 3, 2003 by Michael Boyle

The Canadian Supreme Court

began hearing a case about music downloads on the internet today. The question is whether ISPs should be responsible for the royalties to copyright holders of material downloaded on the net. Something worth following, as any ISP would be liable to any Canadian copyright holder. Or so people have been saying today.

Tags: Canada, Copyfight, Music Industry

Interesting experiment:

September 5, 2003 by Michael Boyle

Interesting experiment:

Does the Right of First Sale Still Exist?. George Hotelling is trying to sell a song he purchased through iTunes at eBay. So far they’re not letting him, though it’s unclear why not.

Tags: Copyfight

Block the RIAA!

July 22, 2003 by Michael Boyle

Block the RIAA!

At Boing Boing! today yesterday, Cory posted a link to Techfocus magazine’s act of blocking RIAA and MPAA domains from accessing the site. A symbolic move, perhaps, but interesting nonetheless.

Tags: Boing Boing, Copyfight, Cory Doctorow, Music Industry

Ridiculous:

June 17, 2003 by Michael Boyle

Ridiculous:

Destroy ‘pirate’ PCs, says politician. Orrin Hatch seems to be seriously advocating destroying or damaging music-downloaders’ computers.

Tags: Copyfight, US Politics

Embrace file-sharing, or die:

February 4, 2003 by Michael Boyle

Embrace file-sharing, or die:

so writes John and Ben Snyder in a paper of the same name submitted to NARAS the other day. John Snyder is the president of a record label and a board member of NARAS, the National Association of Recording Arts and Sciences. They’re the ones who bring you the Grammy awards among other things.

Tags: Copyfight, Music Industry

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