That said, there are at least two bigger points worth making.
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Major Record Labels Adopt ACS
The Swiss Take on DRM
Canada is not alone in dealing with DRM. Urs Gasser has an interesting post on a current Swiss anti-circumvention legislative proposal which covers some of the same issues I'm tackling with 30 Days of DRM.
30 Days of DRM – Day One: Linking Copyright and Anti-Circumvention (Markets)
So what are anti-circumvention provisions? They are provisions that grant legal protection to technological protection measures (TPMs). In plainer English, traditional copyright law grants creators a basket of exclusive rights in their work. TPMs or digital locks (such as anti-copying technologies on CDs) effectively provide a second layer of protection by making it difficult for most people to copy works in digital format. Anti-circumvention legislation creates a third layer of protection by making it an infringement to simply pick or break the digital lock (in fact, it even goes further by making it an infringement to make available tools or devices that can be used to pick the digital lock). Under the DMCA, it is an infringement to circumvent a TPM even if the intended use of the underlying work would not constitute traditional copyright infringement.
This broad legal protection for TPMs has raised numerous issues over the past eight years.
Hundreds of Canadian Artists Call for Balanced Copyright
More than 500 Canadian art professionals have formed a new coalition to call on the government to take a balanced approach to copyright reform. Appropriation Art: A Coalition of Arts Professionals, includes arts organizations from Alberta, BC, Quebec, Ontario, and Saskatchewan along with hundreds of artists from across Canada. The […]
More of a Good Thing, Part One
Alberta Privacy Commissioner Frank Work has joined fellow commissioners Stoddart, Cavoukian, and Loukidelis in writing to Ministers Oda and Bernier regarding their concerns with the privacy implications of copyright reform. While groups such as CRIA have sought to dismiss the privacy concerns, it will be difficult for the government to […]