Volume IV

Issue : 6: March 23, 2006

• Lawsuit Attacks Googles Secret Formula
• Court Rules Unauthorized Website Scraping May Be Actionable as Unjust Enrichment
• BC Court Finds Source Code Within Definition of Software at Time of Sale of Business
• UK Court Ruled ISPs Not Liable For Posting of Defamatory Content
• Canadian Cyberstalker Jailed
• OPC Issues Guidelines for the Use of Video Cameras in Public Spaces
• Class Action Launched Against Music Labels Alleging Price Fixing in Online Market
• Study Concludes RFID Tags May Be Vulnerable To Viruses
• European Commission Begins Public Inquiry into RFID Tag Technology
• OPP Cracks Down on Wireless Internet Theft
• Sony Faces Setback in Patent Battle Over Vibrotactile Technology
• Google Settles Click Fraud Suit For $90 Million
• Quebec Company Fined for Evading Private Copying Levies

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Quebec Company Fined for Evading Private Copying Levies

On March 3, 2006, the Federal Court of Canada ordered a Quebec distributor of blank CD-Rs and CD-RWs to pay a $900,000.00 penalty and, $1.65 million in outstanding private copying levies. The company had been sued by the Canadian Private Copying Collective (CPCC) for failing to pay the 21 cent levies on sales of blank CDs since January 2003.

The CPCC is a non-profit agency that represents Canadian music authors, music publishers, recording artists, musicians and record companies. It was established in 1999 to collect and distribute the levies imposed on blank recording media pursuant to the private copying provisions of the Copyright Act, implemented in 1998. The levy was introduced to compensate copyright owners for the provisions of the Act that allow Canadians to copy music for their own private use without authorization.

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