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The US Claims We’re a Nation of Pirates and Thieves. Again.

Alan Cross ,  , 

From FYI Music News:

Once a year a powerful American lobbying group drafts a hit list of foreign countries that it claims impede the fair trade of American culture and the remuneration in full to copyright holders in Hollywood, Silicon Valley and elsewhere in the land of the obese. And, once again, Canada is on its shit list.
The annual International Intellectual Property Alliance (IIPA) Report on Copyright Protectionis an attack dog for a coalition of US companies that produce copyright-protected materials.  Canada has been in the cross-hair of this powerful lobby group for years, cited for a laundry  list of malfeasance that has  included everything from ineffectual copyright protection to a failure to adequately police and take down alleged online piracy sites.

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Alan Cross

is an internationally known broadcaster, interviewer, writer, consultant, blogger and speaker. In his 40+ years in the music business, Alan has interviewed the biggest names in rock, from David Bowie and U2 to Pearl Jam and the Foo Fighters. He’s also known as a musicologist and documentarian through programs like The Ongoing History of New Music.

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