Canada to Get Its Own DMCA?

[Rob Sutherland]

On Fri, 6 May 2005 15:34:40 -0400
Walter Dnes <waltdnes-SLHPyeZ9y/tg9hUCZPvPmw at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 07:58:52AM -0400, Rob Sutherland wrote
> 
> > "Canadian heritage minister Liza Frulla has recently proposed
> > changes to Canadian copyright law that would allow US companies to
> > sue Canadian Citizens."
> > 
> > This doesn't sound good :-) Has anyone seen any reaction to this from anyone?
> 
>   That does not compute.  Monsanto was able to sue the daylights out of
> a farmer because his next-door neighbour's wheat pollen blew onto the
> defendant's field.  What is so new about US corps being able to sue
> Canadians?
> 

Nothing new about being able to sue - the deal here is that they're planning 
to change the copyright laws so as to give them grounds

http://www.sysdesign.ca/jem_berkes/canadian_copyright.html

Rob 

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