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Originally Posted by Dirty Dane
That still doesn't answer my question, because there is no such thing as fair use rights, unless I've been paid (in my example). Canadian laws can not give you right to something Canada didn't pay for. And I do not have to accept anything but my own laws - and my laws do not control my freedom to set a price myself...
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sure it does your being squeezed between public domain and fair use
your countries copyright laws only apply to your countries citizens period
you have to accept the conditions canada copyright laws to be granted exclusive rights to canadians.
Don't accept those conditions you are not granted exclusive rights to your content.
In otherwords you put your content into the public domain for canadians which means they can take it if they want.
Acccept the conditions then you agree to the price set by the CRIA on your behalf when they negotiated piracy tax. In which case again canadians have a right to take what they want.
You may think it unfair, hell a lot of independent artist are royally pissed at the fact that when they by blank cd to record their own music to sell at club events they are paying royalties to britney spears for piracy that they can prove never happened and they can't claim a share of because they don't meet the sales conditions set in the claims form.
IT tough luck to them, the law is the law, just because you like it doesn't give you the right to ignore it.