The reason that you have not found anything is that the rights that you
refer to have just been announced by the Minister of Canadian Heritage.
If my understanding is correct, the Canadian federal Cabinet has
approved the development of legislation incorporating such rights and
work is now beginning. Legislation will probably be tabled in
Parliament in the future.
You may be able to gather more information by contacting one of two
departments that have joint jurisdiction for copyright amendments in
Canada; Canadian Heritage or Industry Canada.
Owen Thompson
<thompsoo[_at_]i7e.istc.ca>
> From: cni-copyright
> To: Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: new Canadian Performance Right?
> Date: December 23, 1994 00:54
>
>
> Does anyone know about this legislation? The first part of it (the tape
> levy) sounds like an adaptation from the Audio Home Recording Act, but
> the second part sounds like a Performance Right for musicians! A Nexis
> search didn't turn up anything.
>
>
> RECORDING COPYRIGHT POLICY CHANGES
> Canada's government will announce changes to the Copyright Act before
> Christmas that could pump about $50-million annually into recording
> industry coffers. Some of the money will come from a new levy of about
> 25 cents on blank audio cassettes to compensate for lost royalties
> through consumer copying. Broadcasters will also be paying millions
> of dollars to performers of recorded music (currently only composers
> are compensated). (Ottawa Citizen 12/17/94 A1)
>
> Happy Holidays!
>
> scott fedewa
> stanford law school
Received on Fri Dec 23 1994 - 14:16:31 GMT