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March 31st, 2004, 09:55 PM
Link to story: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/36709.html
-{ Quote: "File sharers not guilty of copyright infringement - Canadian judge
By Tony Smith
Posted: 31/03/2004 at 20:02 GMT
Sharing files is not an infringement of copyright under Canadian law, a judge has ruled.
Justice Konrad von Finckenstein today said the Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA) - the equivalent of the litigious Recording Industry Ass. of America (RIAA) - could not prove that 29 unnamed file sharers sued by the organisation had violated copyright material owned by its members.
"No evidence was presented that the alleged infringers either distributed or authorised the reproduction of sound recordings," von Finckenstein noted in his ruling. "They merely...
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-{ Quote: "File sharers not guilty of copyright infringement - Canadian judge
By Tony Smith
Posted: 31/03/2004 at 20:02 GMT
Sharing files is not an infringement of copyright under Canadian law, a judge has ruled.
Justice Konrad von Finckenstein today said the Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA) - the equivalent of the litigious Recording Industry Ass. of America (RIAA) - could not prove that 29 unnamed file sharers sued by the organisation had violated copyright material owned by its members.
"No evidence was presented that the alleged infringers either distributed or authorised the reproduction of sound recordings," von Finckenstein noted in his ruling. "They merely...
.
.
." }-