Time to bring the Copyright Act into digital age

We have a law that is fair and makes sense but its application is stuck in the 1990s. Hence the urgency to bring the law into the 21st century to reflect the rapidly changing technological reality.

TORONTO—Recently I spent a day on the Hill, meeting with MPs and asking them to use cassette tapes or blank CD-Rs if they plan on making any copies of music, instead of loading tracks onto their iPods. I hope they all still have their Walkmans or Discmans.

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