Music publisher: bill C-11 favours “corporate music piracy”
05 March 2012
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Karen Bolipata, New York
Music industry representatives have charged that Canadian copyright reform does not provide strong enough remedies against digital piracy
At a hearing before the special Parliamentary committee on Canada's copyright reform bill C-11 last week, the Canadian Independent Music Association (CIMA) took particular issue with section 18 of the bill, which says that a service “designed primarily” to enable acts of copyright infringement will be deemed an infringement of copyright.
The words designed primarily, the group contended, would allow a site designed to sell smart phones to enable illicit music downloading, for example.
CIMA president Stuart Johnson said there’s a...
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