{"id":456,"date":"2010-12-16T17:06:36","date_gmt":"2010-12-16T17:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cpcc.ca\/en\/?p=456"},"modified":"2011-04-27T17:03:13","modified_gmt":"2011-04-27T17:03:13","slug":"december-16-2010-the-cpcc-applauds-the-liberals-support-of-the-private-copying-regime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cpcc.ca\/en\/december-16-2010-the-cpcc-applauds-the-liberals-support-of-the-private-copying-regime","title":{"rendered":"December 16, 2010 \u2013 The CPCC Applauds the Liberals Support of the Private Copying Regime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Toronto) \u2013 The Liberal party of Canada today announced a new proposal for continued compensation to rights holders for copies made of musical works.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n\u201cSpecifically, the Liberal Party will seek to introduce a new Private Copying Compensation Payment of $35 million to be transferred to Canadian artists each year, through the Canadian Private Copying Collective (CPCC).\u00a0 Liberals are proposing a new statutory program, written in law within the <em>Copyright Act<\/em>, which will increase at the rate of inflation and be reviewed every five years\u201d, stated a Liberal press release earlier today.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The current private copying levy was introduced into law in 1997 by a Liberal government and the CPCC encourages members from all political parties to support this amendment to C-32 which would provide compensation\u00a0to rights holders for\u00a0private copies made\u00a0of their music,\u201d stated Annie Morin, Chair of the CPCC Board of Directors. \u201cCopyright is a difficult issue and it is gratifying to see elected officials working to finding compromises in balancing the needs of the consumers and the rights of the creators. \u00a0I am pleased that the concept of fair compensation for artists is finally being addressed in a meaningful way in this proposal\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The CPCC is the non-profit agency that collects the private copying royalty and distributes it to its member collectives, which represent songwriters, composers, music publishers, recording artists, musicians and record companies.<\/p>\n<p>The Liberal\u2019s press release can be found on their web site: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.liberal.ca\/\">www.liberal.ca<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">-30-<\/p>\n<p>For more information contact:<\/p>\n<p>Alison Thompson<br \/>\n<strong>CPCC<br \/>\n<\/strong>tel. (416) 486-6832, ex. 221<br \/>\nemail: athompson@cpcc.ca<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Toronto) \u2013 The Liberal party of Canada today announced a new proposal for continued compensation to rights holders for copies made of musical works.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-the-canadian-private-copying-collective"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cpcc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cpcc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cpcc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpcc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpcc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpcc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":842,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpcc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456\/revisions\/842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cpcc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpcc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpcc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}