If you’re rolling your eyes at the idea of spending one second immersing yourself in copyright law, take a breath. Copyright–literally “the right to copy”–became an issue within months of Gutenberg firing up
Read MoreBack on January 1, a new regulation went into effect that requires ISPs to take note of accounts suspected of unauthorized downloading of copyrighted material. It’s now the law that they send notices
Read MoreOkay, I’ll say it. If you’re still stealing music, you’re stupid. Given that high-quality, virus-free, properly tagged music is accessible for free (or very close to it), why are you wasting your time?
Read MoreOops. Turns out that David Bowie had nothing to do with the removal of Cmdr Chris Hadfield’s stunning version of “Space Oddity” from YouTube from May 17: I hope you had a chance
Read MoreThe US Copyright Office has initiated a study into music licensing to try and streamline the process. The current system is not only confusing, but broken. We need to something similar in Canada.
Read MoreCopyright laws can be weird things. Take the case of 59 Beatles songs recorded in 1963 that up until now have never been released except as illegal bootlegs. However, under British copyright law,
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