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Wednesday September 07, 2011 |
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The NDP issued a release
yesterday criticizing the government on the revelations found in the
Wikileaks cables involving Canada and copyright. The party said the
cables paint "an alarming picture."
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Wednesday May 04, 2011 |
To the surprise of absolutely no one, the U.S. has again placed Canada
on its Special
301 Priority Watch List,
implausibly claiming that Canada's intellectual property laws are
seriously deficient and on par with countries such as China and
Russia. The U.S. "analysis" is short and to the point:
Canada remains on the Priority Watch
List. The United States continues to urge Canada to implement its
previous commitments to improve its legal framework for IPR protection
and enforcement. Unfortunately, Canadian efforts in 2010 to enact
long-awaited copyright legislation were unsuccessful. The United States
encourages Canada to make the enactment of copyright legislation that
addresses the challenges of piracy over the Internet, including by
fully implementing the WIPO Internet Treaties, a priority for its new
government. The United States encourages Canada to provide for
deterrent-level sentences to be imposed for IPR violations, as well as
to strengthen enforcement efforts, including at the border. Canada
should provide its Customs officials with ex officio authority to
effectively stop the transit of counterfeit and pirated products
through its territory. U.S. stakeholders have also expressed strong
concerns about Canada’s administrative process for reviewing the
regulatory approval of pharmaceutical products, as well as limitations
in Canada’s trademark regime. The United States appreciates the high
level of cooperation between the Canadian and U.S. Governments, and
looks forward to continuing engagement on these important issues.
So Canada - a country with intellectual property protections that have
been ranked ahead of the U.S., has many copyright rules more
restrictive than the U.S., and digital markets growing faster than the
U.S. - is once again placed by the U.S. on the watch list while other
countries
with similar laws are not.
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Friday April 29, 2011 |
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Among the Wikileaks cables released on Canada, is one devoted to summarizing
a meeting
I had with embassy officials in April 2007. At the meeting I noted the
shift away from DRM, doubts about camcording claims, and calls for fair
use.
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Friday April 29, 2011 |
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A Wikileaks
cable
from 2005 reveals that the Canadian Motion Pictures Distributors
Association, the Canadian arm of the MPAA, told the U.S. embassy that
it supports the notice-and-notice approach for ISP liability. The
cable states that "in CMPDA's view, the advent of peer-to-peer
filesharing has lessened the need for notice-and-takedown, since fewer
users are downloading their files from large websites of infringing
material."
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