I purchased David Bowie’s new album, “Reality,” in Vancouver over the weekend (more on that trip at a later date), and was considering also buying the 30th Anniversary Edition of “Aladdin Sane” when I noticed that it was “copy controlled.” Bowie has stated in interviews that he is against copy protection, but EMI, who is releasing his back catalogue, decided to put their “Copy Control” feature on all the Aladdin Sane CDs released in Canada (at least, I’m not certain of the extent of their distribution). Information in an Amazon.com user review claims that only the Canadian versions are copy protected and the American ones are not. At least EMI is clearly labeling the ones that are, which is some small solace. I can only hope that their sales figures will reveal that this scheme is not going to help them sell more CDs.