Canadian copyright law question

[Gorsnak]

Can anyone confirm the information contained in this article?

Tech Central Station - Blame Canada

Relevant excerpt:

While the Digital Millennium Copyright Act may make it illegal to share copyright material in America, the Canadian Copyright Act expressly allows exactly the sort of copying which is at the base of the P2P revolution.

In fact, you could not have designed a law which more perfectly captures the peer to peer process. “Private copying” is a term of art in the Act. In Canada, if I own a CD and you borrow it and make a copy of it that is legal private copying; however, if I make you a copy of that same CD and give it to you that would be infringement. Odd, but ideal for protecting file sharers.

According to the article, the Canadian Copyright Act was modified to allow such copying in response to heavy lobbying by the music industry, because in exchange the act puts levies on blank media - tapes and cd-roms.

I am not a lawyer, and specifically not a lawyer specializing in Canadian copyright law, and so I thought I might survey the board for a more informed opinion. However, the article certainly appears to be credible, and I have no particular reason to doubt its accuracy.

I ask this in part because of the thread started by roxx222 and shut down by bibliophage asking about the legal consequences of using Kazaa. Contrary to what bibliophage asserts in closing that thread, it appears that filesharing is entirely legal in roxx222’s case, assuming that the given location of Montreal is accurate, and if the article cited above is correct.