[Ecommerce] Canadian Music Industry Wants Royalties on Net Usage

Thu Dec 4 22:36:00 2003

I plan to attend the Supreme Court argument on Wednesday and a group of
ISPs from the US, Europe, Australia and Japan have been granted leave to
intervene and 15 minutes oral argument time.

There is more mischief afoot in Canada.   The attached article talks about
an idea
that ISPs paying 3% of their revenues to fund the development of Canadian
content as a way to compensate content owners for their losses allegedly
from Internet piracy.  The content owners have taken the issue to the
Canadian FCC type regulator, the CRTC, who has already determined in its
New Media Exemption Order (about 5yrs ago) not to regulate the Internet
from a broadcasting perspective. However, that decision is now up for a 5
year review.

http://montreal.cbc.ca/regional/servlet/View?filename=qc_adisq20031510

Sarah B. Deutsch
Vice President & Associate General Counsel
Verizon Communications
Phone: 703-351-3044
Fax:      703-351-3670
sarah.b.deutsch@verizon.com

                      "Jeff Williams"
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All,

  Interesting FYI.
See:
 http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1069987965274_65397165/?hub=TopStories

""Apparently Internet music and movie sharing in
Canada has gained enough popularity to turn the heads of the music and
movie industry. CTV has a report about a Canadian organization named
SOCAN (Society of Composers, Authors, and Music Publishers of Canada)
that will "ask the Supreme Court of Canada next week to force Internet
service providers to pay them royalties for the millions of digital
music
files downloaded each year by Canadians". Says the president of the
Canadian Association of Internet Providers, "Consumers could very well
see an increase in their Internet costs and they could see a slowdown in

the transmission speed of their Internet communications".

Regards,

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