(Toronto) — The levy rates for private copying onto blank audio recording media will remain unchanged beyond December 31, 2005 through an interim tariff, the Canadian Private Copying Collective (CPCC) announced today. Read more →

(Toronto) The Supreme Court of Canada today dismissed the application of the Canadian Coalition for Fair Digital Access (CCFDA) who had sought to appeal the Federal Court of Appeal’s ruling that Part VIII of the Copyright Act is validly enacted legislation. Read more →

(Toronto) On May 31, 2005 the Federal Court of Canada issued a judgment against Toronto-based Computer Warehouse Outlet Inc. (CWO) ordering the company to pay the levies owed to the Canadian Private Copying Collective (CPCC) on 398,400 blank CD-Rs. Read more →

(Toronto)  On the Federal Court of Canada issued a judgment against Toronto-based Computer Warehouse Outlet Inc. (CWO) ordering the company to pay the levies owed to the Canadian Private Copying Collective (CPCC) on 398,400 blank CD-Rs. Read more →

(Toronto) On May 12, 2005 the Canadian Private Copying Collective (CPCC) executed a writ of seizure and an Anton Piller order of the Superior Court of the Province of Québec against a levy evader. Read more →

(Toronto) The Federal Court of Appeal has granted the Canadian Private Copying Collective (CPCC) a partial stay of their December 2004 decision that concluded that the Copyright Board of Canada, the body responsible for setting the private copying levies, did not have the jurisdiction to impose a levy on memory permanently embedded in digital audio recorders. Read more →

(Toronto) The Canadian Private Copying Collective (CPCC) has asked the Copyright Board of Canada to maintain the levies on blank audio recording media at existing levels in the 2006 private copying tariff. Read more →

(Toronto) The Canadian Private Copying Collective (CPCC) obtained a judgment on January 19, 2005 from the Federal Court of Canada ordering BNC Systems Inc. to pay CPCC $1.5 million in unpaid levies. Read more →

(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 →