[oclug] [OT] Canadian gov't to apply Tarrif to Compact Flash memory.

[Jon Earle]

On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Brad Barnett wrote:

> Copying for Private Use
>
> 80. (1) Subject to subsection (2), the act of reproducing all or any
> substantial part of               (a) a musical work embodied in a sound
> recording,               (b) a performer's performance of a musical work
> embodied in a sound recording, or               (c) a sound recording in
> which a musical work, or a performer's performance of a musical work, is
> embodied onto an audio recording medium for the private use of the person
> who makes the copy does not constitute an infringement of the copyright in
> the musical work, the performer's performance or the sound recording.

What bothers me, is that this only applies to music.  The market for
recordable media is considerably larger than the puffed up recording
industry would like us to think.  Contrary to their beliefs, I will never
copy a Celine Dion song onto _any_ media I own.