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housejunk · 01-12-2007, 06:09 PM

I wouldn't worry too much about it. The notion of "Fair Dealing" as an exception to copyright infringement in the Canadiany Copyright Act (s.29) is generally only relevant to personal research and/or criticism . If you look at what constitutes actual copyright infringement under s.27 there is little to no application of personal use being restricted. The primary aim of the legislation is towards distrubtors aiming to profit off of someone else's copyright. Its highly unlikely that your own personal use would ever be affected. For that reason, there's no concern with you transferring your music to an iPod. That's clearly personal use, and I would be absolutely shocked if anything ever changed that. Again, this looks like a case of an MP that doesn't really understand the law. (I'm an IP lawyer and engineer.... and a huge practioner of downloading everything from TV shows to software....as far as I'm concerned it is all perfectly legal). There's some free legal advice.

As a side note, that's why bit Torrents are perfectly legal. No one is out there offering a completed file. Instead everyone is grabbing tiny bits and pieces of files from everyone else who is sharing that torrent. Tiny packets of data are not considered copyrightable material.

http://lois.justice.gc.ca/en/showdoc...42///en?page=1

(the relevant sections of the act...)

01-12-2007, 06:09 PM	#29
housejunk Farm Team Player Join Date: Dec 2006 Exp:	I wouldn't worry too much about it. The notion of "Fair Dealing" as an exception to copyright infringement in the Canadiany Copyright Act (s.29) is generally only relevant to personal research and/or criticism . If you look at what constitutes actual copyright infringement under s.27 there is little to no application of personal use being restricted. The primary aim of the legislation is towards distrubtors aiming to profit off of someone else's copyright. Its highly unlikely that your own personal use would ever be affected. For that reason, there's no concern with you transferring your music to an iPod. That's clearly personal use, and I would be absolutely shocked if anything ever changed that. Again, this looks like a case of an MP that doesn't really understand the law. (I'm an IP lawyer and engineer.... and a huge practioner of downloading everything from TV shows to software....as far as I'm concerned it is all perfectly legal). There's some free legal advice. As a side note, that's why bit Torrents are perfectly legal. No one is out there offering a completed file. Instead everyone is grabbing tiny bits and pieces of files from everyone else who is sharing that torrent. Tiny packets of data are not considered copyrightable material. http://lois.justice.gc.ca/en/showdoc...42///en?page=1 (the relevant sections of the act...)