(Toronto) The Canadian Private Copying Collective (CPCC) announced today that it will seek leave to appeal the December 14, 2004 ruling of the Federal Court of Appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada. That ruling concluded that the levy set by the Copyright Board on the internal memory of digital audio recorders, such as the iPod, is invalid. Read more →

(Toronto) – The Canadian Private Copying Collective (CPCC) announced today that the distribution of the private copying royalties collected through the levy on the sale of blank audio recording media in Canada has now reached $33.2 million. Read more →

(Toronto) – The Federal Court of Appeal has dismissed an application for judicial review filed by the Retail Council of Canada following the December 2003 Decision of the Copyright Board. The Retail Council had sought to overturn the private copying levy. Read more →

(Toronto) – The Canadian Private Copying Collective (CPCC) welcomes the Copyright Board’s certification of an interim tariff for 2005. Read more →

(Toronto)  The Canadian Private Copying Collective (CPCC) announced today that, with the recent distribution of a further $2.2 million, creators of recorded music have now received a total of $26.4 million in royalty payments from private copying of music in Canada. Read more →

(Toronto)  The group that collects and distributes the levy on blank media has today filed a court motion requesting that the three appeals to the Copyright Board be heard together. Read more →

(Toronto) – The Federal Court of Canada has ruled against Amico Imaging Services Inc, a company that has not paid the private copying levy on CDs they imported and distributed. Read more →

(Toronto) The Canadian Private Copying Collective (CPCC) has asked the Canadian Copyright Board to extend the private copying tariff for another year to cover 2005. Read more →

(Toronto)  The Canadian Private Copying Collective (CPCC) has hired a senior industry administrator to lead the agency. Read more →

(Toronto) The Canadian Private Copying Collective (CPCC) expressed disappointment this afternoon at simultaneous news conferences in Montreal and Toronto, with the 2003 rates tabled this morning by the Copyright Board. Read more →