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Music sales: Is p2p to blame or not?

by Mathew on November 7, 2007 · View Comments

(this is cross-posted from my Globe and Mail blog) When Industry Canada came out with a study last week that found file-sharing doesn’t lead to reduced CD sales — and in fact may even lead to an increase in sales among those who download a lot — it came as a surprise to many, most [...]

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Fair use costs/makes money — discuss

by Mathew on September 13, 2007 · View Comments

It’s funny how all those press releases that the record industry sends out about the costs of music piracy rarely ever mention “fair use,” a concept that is an integral component of copyright law in most countries. It’s as though the idea never existed. But then, admitting that copyright regulations are a tradeoff between two [...]

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