Canadian record labels appeal P2P ruling

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The ruling will stand: In Canada the copyright laws aren't quite the same as the US. Fist off copyrights only last 50 years in Canada and that's it. The law is also very archaic in that it hasn't been updated. It's still based on printed works from what I understand. The judge in the first court case was quite right in the ruling as that is all the ruling will allow. The Supreme Court here will see this the same way and uphold the ruling as they are in the job of interpreting law not making law.

The main reason for appealing this is not to get the ruling over turned. It's to bring the problem to forefront for the Canadian government to take action and rewrite the law. This same thing happened with Pot smoking when the Supreme Court ruled that technically under the law it was legal to be in possesion of small amounts of marijuanna. That forced goverment to rewrite that law to fix the problem.

The thing with copyrights is that copyrights are small potatoes to the Canadian goverment and with the current Liberals running a minority government the chances of them even looking at this will out support from the other 3 parties is minimal. Now since the other 3 parties won't support any Liberal position with out some form of consession means that copyrights will not even come up. The current party in power doesn't want to waste what little power it has on copyrights. So that's 4 year minimum unless a non-confidence vote is occurs forcing an earlier election. Then it will probably take the government another 4 years to actually do something. So this whole copyright issues will probably dealt with sometime in the next decade and by that time this whole downloading thing probably won't even be a problem anymore. At the very least we see just how much it's really hurt the recording business and the big record labels better be able to prove they are losing money. Just like those meat packing plants had to do.; Posted by: voska Posted on: 07/13/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use