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Two Copyright Columns To Start the Week

I have two copyright-related columns out this morning.  The first, Fair Copyright Provides Prentice With Reform Roadmap, appears in the Hill Times (HT version, homepage version).  The column raises the same fair copyright proposals that I posted last week.  The second,  Copyright Reform a Potential Threat to Privacy, is my weekly Toronto Star column (Toronto Star version, Ottawa Citizen version, BBC version, homepage version).  It discusses last week's letter from Privacy Commissioner of Canada Jennifer Stoddart to Industry Minister Jim Prentice and Canaian Heritage Minister Josee Verner, warning that "privacy protections for Canadians would be weakened if changes to the Copyright Act authorized the use of technical mechanisms to protect copyrighted material that resulted in the collection, use and disclosure of personal information without consent."

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  1. MS Stoddart will probably get dismissed for daring to confront the goverment, the same way Linda Keen of the Nuclear Safety watchdog did.

    I do have to give kudos for coming out and saying that there are issues with the proposed legislation (that nobody except lobbyists and the US government have seen)