Canada’s Supreme Court has ruled that ISPs do not have to pay royalties to composers and artists for music downloaded by Web customers, branding ISPs as merely “intermediaries”.
In the case, the service providers had argued that artists should seek royalties directly from Web sites offering their work, not from companies providing wider-ranging access to the Web.
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