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.
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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.
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