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  • Canada deems P2P downloading legal, levies MP3 players

    Downloading copyrighted music from peer-to-peer networks is legal in Canada, although uploading files is not, Canadian copyright regulators said in a ruling released Friday.

  • What's left of copyright?

    The battle lines are being drawn between copyright and copyleft proponents,"but what are they fighting about?

  • Copyright-cops for Gnutella, others

    An ambiguity in a 1998 copyright law, has placed Internet service providers at loggerheads with copyright owners over the extent to which they must police their subscribers' peer-to-peer file-sharing activities.

  • End of an era for file-sharing chic?

    COMMENTARY: Not too long ago, civil liberties groups aiming to protect peer-to-peer networks like Napster and Kazaa were happy to dispense some free legal advice to the Recording Industry Association of America.

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