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: Michael Geist

Pandora Blames Licensing Costs, Not Copyright for Blocking Canada

By Michael Geist

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The Canadian Press runs an interesting story on some of the mobile music services that have yet to enter the Canadian market. Tim Westergren, the founder of the hugely popular Pandora service, places the blame squarely on the fees being demanded by record labels and rights societies, indicating that Pandora will not launch in Canada until fees come down. MOG, another service, indicates that it may enter the Canadian market, but will have to charge higher fees (thereby slowing adoption) due to the music industry demands.

Canadian Recording Industry Association President Graham Henderson, doing his best to alleviate the music service concerns, essentially says that they are wrong and that licence fees are not problem. Instead, he argues that copyright that is the real reason the services are not entering the country (none of the services interviewed appear to have raised copyright as a concern), claiming that Canadians "have no appetite for a legal marketplace." Yet according to Pandora, it is the music industry that is to blame, not the law nor individual Canadians.

Full post as published by Michael Geist on September 23, 2010 (boomark / email).