Music biz loses Net royalties fight in Canada

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Canada to Charge Music Royalties on MP3s

Canada to Charge Music Royalties on MP3s 12/12/2003 06:38 PM
San Jose Mercury News Dec 12 2003 4:58PM ET

Music-sharing fight comes to Canada

Music-sharing fight comes to Canada 02/16/2004 09:22 PM
globetechnology.com Feb 17 2004 1:03AM GMT

Canada songwriters eye royalties from
ISPs

Canada songwriters eye royalties from
ISPs 12/03/2003 07:25 PM
Boston Globe Dec 3 2003 6:17PM ET

Canada Songwriters Eye Royalties From
ISPs

Canada Songwriters Eye Royalties From
ISPs 12/03/2003 07:25 PM
AP via Newsday Dec 3 2003 6:10PM ET

Canada Nixes Internet Royalties

Canada Nixes Internet Royalties 07/02/2004 05:09 AM
ISPs merely disseminate music and cannot be held responsible for paying royalties to the industry for pirated music, Canada's Supreme Court rules.

Canada Rules That ISPs Don't Need To Pay
Royalties For Subscriber Downloads

Canada Rules That ISPs Don't Need To Pay
Royalties For Subscriber Downloads 06/30/2004 11:25 AM
While some Canadian politic ians seem a bit shady when it comes to understanding the intricacies intellectual property law, it appears Canadian judges are doing pretty well. First, they shot down lawsuits against file sharers by pointing out that the recording industry didn't actually have any evidence that files were uploaded or downloaded (just that they were "available"). Now, they've ruled that ISPs are not responsible for paying royalties when their subscribers download music. This was part of a money grab strategy by the entertainment industry who figured that they might as well just go after ISPs and see if they could get some cash out of them. The Canadian Supreme Court, in a unanimous ruling, found that ISPs are just "intermediaries," and should have no obligation to pay for what their subscribers are doing.

Music Royalties At All Time Highs

Music Royalties At All Time Highs 01/26/2004 07:41 PM
Whenever I get involved in discussions about online music and suggest that musicians don't need to make their money on CD sales (in most cases, they don't already - they make their money on live performances) people often bring up the question of how will songwriters make their money. After all, the song writers just pen the songs, but don't perform them. Well, it seems that maybe they won't have such a problem as song writing royalties from performance rights are at an all time high despite all the troubles the recording industry is supposedly in. That's because they do receive royalties from public performances of the music - and those aren't decreasing at all. Of course, the song writers are still complaining about how they're not making as much money as they used to, as they're making less from CD royalties. Well, that's what happens when business models change. Most people who create one thing don't get to sit back and collect cash for it for the rest of their lives. Meanwhile, the article includes a quote that shows just how the industry views the internet. It's not about being a communications mechanism that lets everyone communicate back and forth. No, they see it as a one way medium to force content on folks who will pay them for it: "The Internet has not been able to grow as other broadcast venues of entertainment have grown." That's because it's not a broadcast venue. The faster the industry realizes this, the faster they'll be able to get past all the troubles they're having.

ASCAP Shakes Down Burning Man for Music
Royalties

ASCAP Shakes Down Burning Man for Music
Royalties 08/27/2004 01:28 PM
LOS ANGELES, CA -- Officials from ASCAP today indicated they intend to pursue music royalties from the organizers of Burning Man, an artist's gathering and celebration held over the Labor Day holiday near Reno, NV. The unconventional event, held annually since 1986, has never paid fees for any of the music played at the event, says ASCAP. "We intend to pursue all available avenues to get this issue resolved," said Tony Wilcox, ASCAP spokesperson.

Canadian Music Industry Wants Royalties
on Net Usage

Canadian Music Industry Wants Royalties
on Net Usage 12/02/2003 01:50 AM

Supreme Court rules that ISPs don't have
to pay music royalties

Supreme Court rules that ISPs don't have
to pay music royalties 06/30/2004 12:56 PM
Canadian Press via Canada.com Jun 30 2004 5:42PM GMT

(parody) ASCAP shakes down Burning Man
for music royalties

(parody) ASCAP shakes down Burning Man
for music royalties 09/01/2004 11:34 AM
Xeni Jardin: Oh, the (glitter-covered, body-painted) humanity! The American Society for Composers, Authors, and Publishers -- ASCAP -- demanding cash from Burning Man?

When [a] composer's tune is played, ASCAP collects a fee from the venue performing it and delivers it, minus administrative costs, to the composer. For venues wishing to play copyrighted music for their visitors, ASCAP typically offers a package deal where, for an annual fee, subscribers can play as much of their members' music as they wish. The fee is scaled according to the number of people who will be present at the venue and, therefore, will be exposed to the music. "It's very reasonable," says Wilcox. "You'd probably spend more per month on heating and electricity than for one of our licenses."

Burning Man, however, has never obtained a performance license, says Wilcox. Music is one of the staples of the week-long event, with mostly electronic music playing around the clock. 25,000 people are estimated to have attended Burning Man last year alone. That size concerns Wilcox. "Sometimes we'll let smaller venues like nightclubs slide on past royalties, provided they obtain a current license. But this is just too big to ignore."

According to Wilcox, Burning Man organizers had rebuffed previous ASCAP attempts to secure a royalty agreement, claiming that the organization itself does not provide the music. All music is brought in by the visitors. Further, Burning Man is expressly non-commerical -- the use of money of any kind during the event is forbidden. However, says Wilcox, that doesn't matter. "Whether the venue itself makes any money or not, the artist's music was still used in a large venue, and he or she deserves to be paid for it. Our job is to make sure that happens."

Link to Kuro5hin article (which is 100% fake) (Thanks, Secret Agent M!)

Supreme Court says ISPs don't have to
pay music royalties for Internet piracy

Supreme Court says ISPs don't have to
pay music royalties for Internet piracy 06/30/2004 07:13 PM
Canadian Press via Canada.com Jun 30 2004 11:25PM GMT

"Record companies double royalties while
online music sites lose money"

"Record companies double royalties while
online music sites lose money" 09/24/2004 09:18 AM

AOL Loses Round in Spam Fight

AOL Loses Round in Spam Fight 12/30/2003 07:45 PM
Internet News Dec 30 2003 7:39PM ET

Johnny Ramone loses cancer fight

Johnny Ramone loses cancer fight 09/16/2004 03:59 AM
Johnny Ramone, guitarist in seminal band The Ramones, dies of cancer at the age of 55.

Google Loses Domain Fight Over
Froogles.com

Google Loses Domain Fight Over
Froogles.com 07/26/2004 03:58 PM

Lottery Winner, 94, Loses Lump Sum Fight
(AP)

Lottery Winner, 94, Loses Lump Sum Fight
(AP) 12/31/2004 05:18 PM
AP - A judge denied a 94-year-old woman's attempt to force the Massachusetts Lottery Commission to pay her entire $5.6 million winnings up front on grounds she otherwise won't live long enough to collect it all.

McDonald's Loses Legal Fight Against
MacNoodles (Reuters)

McDonald's Loses Legal Fight Against
MacNoodles (Reuters) 09/20/2004 08:37 AM
Reuters - U.S. fast-food giant McDonald's Corp. lost a legal battle in Singapore Monday to stop a food company from distributing products named "MacNoodles," "MacTea" and "MacChocolate."

Canada joins online piracy fight

Canada joins online piracy fight 02/17/2004 11:49 AM
Canada's biggest music companies start legal moves to try to identify people who illegally swap songs online.

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Terror Fight

ABCNEWS.com : Poll: Bush Loses Ground on
Terror Fight 06/22/2004 09:28 AM
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Police knock out Canada hockey fight
contest (Reuters)

Police knock out Canada hockey fight
contest (Reuters) 08/11/2004 05:42 PM
Reuters - Canadian police delivered a knock-out blow to a contest that planned to take the hockey out of hockey fights, the organiser of Hockey Gladiators says.

Canada OKs P2P music downloads

Canada OKs P2P music downloads 12/12/2003 10:04 PM
iPod royalty tax

Yahoo! Music Canada goes live

Yahoo! Music Canada goes live 03/31/2005 11:25 PM
Globe and Mail Apr 1 2005 3:24AM GMT

Canada Music Biz Bites Dentists

Canada Music Biz Bites Dentists 08/02/2004 04:36 AM
Dentists in Canada discover they have to pay fees to Canadian music publishers for the right to play copyright music in their offices. U.S. dentists may be surprised to find out that similar rules apply in their country. By Katie Dean.

Canada: Downloading music is legal

Canada: Downloading music is legal 12/15/2003 05:59 AM
ZDNet UK Dec 15 2003 4:52AM ET

Canada ruling won't stop music lawsuits

Canada ruling won't stop music lawsuits 12/16/2003 04:12 PM
Last week's ruling in Canada declaring downloading music through peer-to-peer services legal may do little to prevent the music industry from taking its own action against file swappers.

Canada slaps levy on iPods, other music
players

Canada slaps levy on iPods, other music
players 12/14/2003 12:07 AM
The Copyright Board of Canada said on Friday that it will place a levy of CDN$2 on hard drive-based digital music players with a capacity of up to 1GB, $15 for players with a capacity of 1GB to 10GB, and $25 for those over 10GB...

Apple Launches iTunes Music Store in
Canada

Apple Launches iTunes Music Store in
Canada 12/19/2004 03:10 PM

Online music service starts price war in
Canada

Online music service starts price war in
Canada 01/04/2005 12:56 PM
The battle for market share between online music services is heating up in Canada with Puretracks.com recently cutting prices on selected songs by 20 percent. A report in the Financial Post today says Puretracks.com's sale is on specific titles offered by Universal Music, including hot sellers and CDs on the year-end lists of music critics. Albums are being offered at $7.99, with individual songs priced at 79 cents. Apple's iTunes and Napster, which also operates Canadian services, did not respond to calls yesterday, according to the report. Both charge a base price of 99 cents per song and $9.99 an album. Price competition for online music has occurred more regularly in the United States, which also has more companies battling for market share. For example, iTunes charges US99 cents per track, while Wal-Mart Stores Inc. charges US88 cents and Real Networks Inc.'s Rhapsody service charges as little as US79 cents.

Canada rejects Internet music royalty
plan

Canada rejects Internet music royalty
plan 07/14/2004 05:02 AM
Spectrum.ieee.org - Wed Jul 14, 07:38 am GMT

Music biz appeals Canada file
sharing-is-legal ruling

Music biz appeals Canada file
sharing-is-legal ruling 04/19/2004 04:29 PM
Music to lawyers' ears

Web music piracy fight 'working'

Web music piracy fight 'working' 01/22/2004 08:23 AM
The global record industry says it is winning the fight against internet piracy, and warns of a legal crackdown.

Music Rivals Prepare To Fight iTunes

Music Rivals Prepare To Fight iTunes 04/27/2004 06:46 PM
The iTunes model is called a la carte. Listeners peruse a library of songs, pick a few and buy them. But another model is emerging that, its proponents say, will supplant the Apple approach in the future. That is the subscription model. With that model, listeners pay a monthly fee for unlimited access to a music library. By John P. Mello Jr., TechNewsWorld (via MyAppleMenu)

Germany to fight back against foreign
music (Reuters)

Germany to fight back against foreign
music (Reuters) 12/19/2004 03:23 PM
Reuters - German radio stations will be encouraged to play more German pop music in an effort to support the domestic music industry, officials say.

Cdn recording industry begins legal
fight to stop music uploaders

Cdn recording industry begins legal
fight to stop music uploaders 02/16/2004 01:19 PM
Canadian Press via Canada.com Feb 16 2004 5:10PM GMT

Songwriters eye ISP royalties

Songwriters eye ISP royalties 12/04/2003 12:10 AM
globetechnology.com Dec 3 2003 11:14PM ET

ISO to Require Royalties?

ISO to Require Royalties? 10/28/2003 11:06 PM
The ISO, a worldwide standards body, is proposing to charge fees for commercial usage in software of their standardized country, language and currency codes. This would have a wide-ranging negative effect on the infrastructure of the web and related standards. Kendall Grant Clark explains the situation and argues against the ISO's proposal.

Olsen twins sue over royalties

Olsen twins sue over royalties 04/27/2004 06:14 AM
BBC Apr 27 2004 9:51AM GMT

Is There Room for Royalties in W3C
Recommendations?

Is There Room for Royalties in W3C
Recommendations? 07/16/2002 10:46 AM
The standards body's Patent Policy Working Group may vote as early as this week on whether there should be exceptions that would allow royalty-bearing technologies in its recommendations.
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