Canadian Music Industry Appeal File Sharing Decision
Internet, Copyright, Music Industry, File Sharing, Music Downloads July 12th, 2004The Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA) today appealed a court ruling in which a judge ruled that peer-to-peer file sharing was legal in Canada.
Like its American counterparts the RIAA, the Canadian group is trying to sue file-swappers who are trading copyrighted music online. But in March, a court blocked the label’s trade group from obtaining the identities of alleged file traders, saying that trading music over programs like Kazaa did not appear to be illegal.
The Federal Court of Appeal should set a date for arguments in the appeal in several weeks. CRIA said in its appeal that the lower court should have allowed its cases against alleged copyright infringers to go forward, and reiterated its stance that unauthorized file-sharing constitutes copyright infringement.
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