Prey to Thievery

This is a case study that weighs the influence of a long-term lobbying campaign by the Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA), representing the multinational recording companies Warner, EMI, Sony-BMG, and Universal. In 1997, Canada signaled its intent to reform copyright for the digital age. This study uses government documents obtained through access-to-information requests to measure the influence of CRIA’s lobby on the pre-parliamentary and Cabinet phases of the Canadian government’s copyright policy development.