[Discuss] MP3 Players

[Daniel M German]

 Adam Parkin twisted the bytes to say:


 Adam> Brian Burger wrote:
 >> Copying for personal use is perfectly legal in Canada. You don't even
 >> have to own the CD - copying library CDs or a friend's CDs that you've
 >> brought home is legal too.
 >> 
 >> That's why we pay the blank-tape and blank-CD-R levy, basically.
 >> 
 >> I've brought a lot of CDs home from the library, now all nicely ripped
 >> to my hard drive, all perfectly legal.
 >> 
 >> There are a couple of good FAQs on media copying in Canada out there -
 >> do a quick search.

 Adam> It's been a bit since I looked at Canadian Copyright Law, but last
 Adam> time I checked there were plans to restrict this freedom so that while
 Adam> you could still copy freely, it would become illegal to make available
 Adam> works (the idea was to target P2P networks).  So the idea was that if
 Adam> you download a song of off BitTorrent that's legal, but the person who
 Adam> originally put the song up on BitTorrent was breaking the law.  Where
 Adam> it got a bit gray (from what I could see at the time) was what about
 Adam> if your friend came over to your house and made a copy of your CD?
 Adam> He's legally safe, but could you be construed as "making available"
 Adam> copyrighted works?

 Adam> Anybody know if these changes have happened or not?

As far as I know, nothing. it is stalled "somewhere". I suspect this
is due to the change in government.

the bill is C-60 http://www.cippic.ca/en/faqs-resources/bill-c-60/

The best way to track its progress is by asking photographers who owns
by default the copyright of their photos. They are one of the major
lobbying groups behind C-60.

now, answering your question, _MY_ opinion is that it will not affect
to make "your collection available to your friend" in a physical
manner. See 1.1.d below


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(1.1) Subject to subsection (2.1), a performer has a copyright in the
performerÕs performance, consisting of the sole right to do the
following acts in relation to the performerÕs performance or any
substantial part of it:

		
 (a) if it is not fixed,

		
  (i) to communicate it to the public by telecommunication,
 
  (ii) to perform it in public, if it is communicated to the public by telecommunication otherwise than by communication signal, and

  (iii) to fix it in any material form,
		
 (b) if it is fixed in a sound recording, to reproduce that fixation,
		
 (c) to rent out a sound recording of it,
		
 (d) to sell or otherwise transfer ownership for the first time of
 every fixation of it in a sound recording that is in tangible form,
 and
		
 (e) to make a sound recording of it available to the public in a way
 that allows members of the public to access it through
 telecommunication from a place and at a time individually chosen by
 them, and to authorize any such acts.


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 Adam> Adam Parkin
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 There will be no end to the troubles of states, or indeed of humanity
 Adam> itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we
 Adam> now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers.

 Adam> 	-- Plato, "Republic"



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