p2pnet - rss feed: CRIA uses Kazaa as PR hook
p2p news / p2pnet:- EMI (UK), UMG (France), WMG (USA) and Sony BMG (Japan, Germany) who together comprise the Big Four record label cartel, are using the just-announced Kazaa decision in Australia as a hook to renew pressure on the Canadian government to amend its copyright act to better suit cartel interests.
The Oz Federal Court found Sharman Networks’ induced users to infringe copyrights with its Kazaa p2p application but, “Kazaa might well take a good look up here and (say) ‘Canada looks pretty good’,” the CBC has the CRIA’s Graham Henderson saying
“And we can’t have that.”
Canada’s legal digital music sales “continue to be hamstrung by antiquated copyright laws and widespread Internet piracy,” says Henderson, echoing an earlier comment by Canadian heritage minister Liza Frulla, an enthusiastic supporter of the cartel’s on-going efforts to turn Canada into a mini-America. There, just about anything the music, movie and software industries say, goes.
“As it is drafted, the Canadian bill would have the perverse effect of protecting traffickers in stolen intellectual property from liability at the same time that other countries around the world are enacting laws prohibiting such illegitimate trafficking schemes,” says Richard Pfohl, the CRIA’s American mouthpiece.
This is “directly contrary to the Canadian Government’s stated intentions, and we are confident that Ottawa will take steps to amend the legislation and correct these drafting errors when the bill is considered by Parliament this fall,” he says.
He should know considering the members of the Big Four record label cartel have contributed so much to it via a non-stop PR barrage, and during closed-door meetings with senior Canadian government officials.
Heavily criticized amendments to the copyright bill, C-60, are slated to go before parliament this fall.
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See:-
just-announced - Big Music cartel nails Sharman, September 5, 2005
CBC - CRIA wants tougher internet piracy law in Canada, September 5, 2005
echoing - Frulla on ‘antiquated’ IP laws, June 15, 2005
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First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win
- Mohandas Gandhi
September 6th, 2005 at 10:07 pm
Just demonstrates what we aready know. We live in pseudo democracies, where the real decision making involves no democracy what so ever.
On issues as important as this, the people should decide, not these corrupt politicians, who make shady deals behind closed doors.
September 8th, 2005 at 2:13 pm
Each time I talk to a Canadian member of parliament face-to-face they ask me if there are other average Canadians not part of a lobby group that are interested in this topic other than me. They tell me that they either haven’t received any letters/calls/meetings on this issue at all, or that they have received less than a handful.
Most parliamentarians believe this is a done-deal as the only thing they have heard is the view from the legacy content industry associations and the legacy “creator groups” who want to protect the results of past creativity from competition with new creativity.
If you want something as important as this to be decided by “the people” then you need to help convince as many people as you can to make their voice heard.
I wrote a a page to offer some suggestions on what people can do:
http://www.digital-copyright.ca/billc60/do_something.shtml
September 9th, 2005 at 1:16 pm