Radio industry demanding copyright action

OTTAWA – Does it sound right that radio stations should have to pay $7 million in fees for simply transferring a music file from one computer to another, or from a CD to a server, for use within its own operations – in order to get the song to air? No it doesn’t, says the Canadian Association of Broadcasters, which is again at the doorstep of the House of Commons demanding that MPs pay attention to this detail when it examines the recently tabled copyright bill, C-60. “When the government’s new copyright bill was tabled last month, Bill C-60 not...