This unsigned comment on the recent Canadian court decision to the effect that file sharing technology is legal in Canada (though - I might add, advertising, promoting or selling copies of commercial content is not) may as well have been written by an unnamed recording industry executive. The author writes, "Parliament should revisit the Copyright Act. Sites that make copyright material widely available without permission should be included in the section on wrongly 'authorizing' copying... Parliament should also revisit Section 80 of the act, which lets anyone copy a musical work for 'private use'..." If Parliament revisits the Act - which it is planning to do - and if it considers signing the 1996 amendment to the WIPO treaty, which even the judge noted, would mean "placing of someone else's copyright song in a shared Internet directory would be explicitly recognized as an offence," then it should consider the wider implications of such legislation. What happen if, for example, sharing news reports becomes illegal? Don't think it could happen....?
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