Canadian Music Week: Fair is fair, say webcasting royalty advocates

TORONTO - The impending decision by the Copyright Board of Canada regarding a proposed tariff for the use of music in webcasts is unlikely to put at end to arguments between the nation’s broadcasters and those organizations responsible for collecting copyright payments on behalf of Canadian music authors, performers and publishers. But it sure helped to heat up the discussion during a special panel session about Canada’s music copyright policies at last week’s Canadian Music Week conference held in Toronto. “Our position is pretty clear that we’ve seen an excessive increase in tariff payments for radio broadcasters,” said Gabriel van...