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• Why SOCAN Wanted To Keep Its Copyright Submission Secret

  
  Michael Geist Blog — Authority: 679
  Howard Knopf provides his take on why SOCAN wanted to keep its copyright submission secret.  The key issue - retroactive legislative reform.
  1 week ago

• SOCAN & Sotto Voce Retroactivity & Pending Litigation

  
  EXCESS COPYRIGHT — Authority: 479
  Michael Geist has outed the curious special treatment given to SOCAN’s submission to the recent copyright consultation process, which is available only by specific request. If you do request it, you will get it right away delivered by email as an inconvenient non- searchable PDF. From a technical standpoint, this ...
  1 week ago

• SOCAN Tries To Keep Its Copyright Consultation Submission Offline And Secret, But Fails

  
  Unity Behind Diversity — Authority: 103
  This post originally appeared on Techdirt . We were just talking about how SOCAN, the Canadian copyright collection society, was going after gymnastics clubs for kids using music in their practice routines. Now they’re getting some well-deserved attention for other antics. Michael Geist explains how SOCAN ...
  1 week ago

• SOCAN goes after Vancouver transit buskers

  
  Law is Cool — Authority: 427
  It seems that SOCAN has finally decided to take a piece of the incredibly rich Vancouver transit busker pie, and has informed the Vancouver transit authority of their intent to enforce SOCAN tariffs for buskers. The Vancouver transit authority says those tariffs could drive the cost of a Translink busker licence ...
  1 week ago

• Vancouver Buskers Face SOCAN Royalty Demand

  
  Michael Geist Blog — Authority: 679
  The Vancouver Sun reports on new SOCAN demands that buskers in the Vancouver transit system pay performance royalties that could run up to $1500 per year.
  1 week ago

• SOCANs Secret Copyright Submission Posted Online

  
  Michael Geist Blog — Authority: 679
  The government has now completed posting all the submissions it received during the copyright consultation (Ill be posting a final summary shortly).  Interestingly, the final submission to be posted was from SOCAN, but it came with some controversy.  Sources say that SOCAN requested that its submission not be ...
  2 weeks ago

• Lindustrie de la musique canadienne se déploie pour célébrer la 20e édition du Gala de la SOCAN à Toronto

  
  LSM Newswire — Authority: 150
  English to follow. TORONTO, le 23 nov. /CNW/ - La SOCAN (la Société canadienne des auteurs, compositeurs et éditeurs de musique) et lindustrie de la musique étaient réunies ce soir au Roy Thomson Hall afin de fêter certains des auteurs et compositeurs canadiens les plus talentueux, ainsi que leurs ...
  2 weeks ago

• Canadian Collection Society Pushing Gymnastics Clubs To Pay Up F...

  
  Computer & Internet - computer-internet.marc8.com — Authority: 165
  Weve been seeing a ton of stories in the last year concerning collection societies around the world increasing their efforts to collect money from any sort of entity that plays music ever -- even if it actually ends up causing significant harm to new and up-and-coming musicians. The efforts usually focus on two ...
  2 weeks ago

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