Canada's music industry wants Copyright Act to keep up with the times

TORONTO and ST. JOHN'S - As Canada's music industry gathered at the annual Juno Awards, recording artists and songwriters called on the federal government to amend the copyright legislation to ensure that artists are compensated for private copies made of their works."Canadian artists are no longer being compensated for the hundreds of millions of copies made of their works," said Annie Morin, chair of the Canadian Private Copying Collective (CPCC), the organization which collects and distributes the private copying levy. "It's time to bring the Copyright Act into the 21st century and to reflect how copies of music are actually...