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Canadian ISPs and copyright holders present opposite views on ISP liability

Broadcast | April 30, 2004

Canada’s music recording industry has asked Parliament to change the ad hoc arrangement by which Internet service providers (ISPs) deal with copyright infringing material online. The Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA) asked a meeting of the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage to move to a U.S.-style notice-and-takedown regime that would require ISPs to remove any material hosted on their servers when told by a copyright holder that the material is in violation of the law.

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