Talk:Canadian Recording Industry Association

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I'm pretty sure that the Canada Copyright Board made downloads of music legal much earlier than March 31 2004 -- on that date the courts stated that having music available for download over P2P clients was noninfringing, which equates to uploading (in the context of P2P). — mendel ☎ 05:14, Apr 1, 2004 (UTC)

Reread what I wrote. The ruling was by a court, not by the Copyright Board. The court upheld the Copyright Board's decision. RickK | Talk 05:16, 1 Apr 2004 (UTC)

I did (and updated it). The ruling was about letting other people download from you ("uploading", in RIAA/CRIA terms), and not downloading. See [1]; the CRIA was after the names of people who were providing music, because downloading is unambiguously noninfringing thanks to the blank media levy. I suspect that going after users who only download would be thrown out with prejudice, if it ever saw time in court at all.

Section 25 of the decision talks about downloading, and refers to the earlier CCB ruling. What was new in this case was the findings expressed in section 26:

"No evidence was presented that the alleged infringers either distributed or authorized the reproduction of sound recordings. They merely placed personal copies into their shared directories which were accessible by other computer user via a P2P service."

and the continuation in Section 27 comparing that to providing a photocopier in a library. That's why the Globe took the spin they did, as did the Register, in talking about making files available for download.

In any case it's bound to go to the Supreme Court with unpredictable results, since other parts of the decision involved eg. whether or not the means by which the CRIA obtained the alleged infringers' IP addresses was valid. I agree it's sufficiently earthshaking to warrant mention, though. — mendel ☎ 05:29, Apr 1, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks!

Just wanted to thank whoever added my article on the Wiki regarding CRIA (The Slyck article) Thanks a million!(even though I might be slow on the draw for that)--IceCube2 03:56, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Membership

Which companies are still CRIA members? Are there any Canadian companies left, or only multinationals? Their web site is not forthcoming on the subject. —Michael Z. 2006-12-03 22:56 Z