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Message #173579 posted by forged registration (Info) March 24, 2008 15:15:48 ET
In Reply to: intellectual property-- do i own it this mp3? posted by bum (Info) March 23, 2008 23:11:07 ET
i don't think you own it (ie: you can't sell copies of it for profit), but if you live in canada you can legally share copies
File-sharing not illegal, says judge
April 2, 2004
Toby Earle
A Canadian judge has dealt a blow to the global record industry's anti-piracy campaign by declaring that sharing music over the internet is not illegal.
Justice Konrad von Finckenstein has refused the Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA) a court order to force five Canadian internet service providers to reveal the names, phone numbers and addresses of 29 file-sharers the CRIA believed were infringing copyright.
In his ruling, von Finckenstein compared the actions the file sharers to the presence of a photocopy machine in a library. "I cannot see a real difference between a library that places a photocopy machine in a room full of copyrighted material and a computer user that places a personal copy on a shared directory linked to a P2P service," he stated.
People who download music illegally outside Canada can't quite break out the champagne yet, as this decision is based in current Canadian copyright law. "Copyright laws do differ all around the world, and I understand the CRIA want to appeal the decision. There's overwhelming evidence that file sharing is hugely damaging to the global music industry and it's a clear infringement of copyright," said Matt Phillips at the BPI.
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