"Canadian DMCA To Be Introduced This Spring"?

[Meng Cheah]

http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/1875/125/


      Canadian DMCA To Be Introduced This Spring

"The Hill Times <http://www.thehilltimes.ca/> reports this week (issue 
still not online) that the Conservative government will introduce 
copyright reform legislation this spring provided that there is no 
election.  The paper points to two main changes from the Liberals Bill 
C-60 - tougher anti-circumvention legislation (ie. DMCA-style laws that 
ban devices that can be used to circumvent as well as provisions that 
block all circumvention subject to the odd exception) and an educational 
exception that will provide for free access to web-based materials.

If this report is true, the bill will be remarkable in its ability 
generate more opposition than any prior copyright bill in Canadian 
history.  From a policy perspective, it is a disaster - dangerous and 
unnecessary laws to support DRM and an educational exception that does 
little to address the needs of the education community while encouraging 
even greater use of DRM." ...

Meng
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