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Monday December 12, 2011 |
Union des consommateurs is one of Canada's leading consumer advocacy
groups. Based in Quebec, it represents consumer interests on a wide
range of issues. Union des consommateurs filed a submission
to the 2009 national copyright consultation that expressed significant
concern with the use of digital locks and their implications for
consumer rights, privacy, and freedom of expression.
Dès lors, le Gouvernement se doit de se poser la question
d'intégrer
spécifiquement de telles dispositions au sein de la Loi sur le
droit
d'auteur, alors que l'échec des mesures techniques de protection
est
évident, et que celles-ci seraient déjà
protégées dans notre arsenal
législatif. Nous avons aujourd'hui le recul nécessaire
pour affirmer
que la protection légale des mesures techniques de protection
est
dangereuse pour la vie privée des consommateurs, que bien
souvent elle
porte atteinte à la liberté d'expression, et qu'elles
limitent les
utilisations légitimes des oeuvres.
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Friday December 09, 2011 |
The Canadian Urban Library Council members collectively serve more than
7.5 million
active users at 522 locations. In 2008, members loaned 171,000,000
items and expended $86 million on collections including $8 million on
digital resources. The CULC provided a submission
to the 2009 national copyright consultation and said the following
about digital locks:
Legislation must ensure that individuals and the not-for-profit
library, archive, museum, and education institutions which serve them
can circumvent TPMs for non-infringing purposes. Increasingly content
providers are recognizing that TPMs which restrict using legally
acquired content on different devices are not acceptable to consumers.
TPMs which restrict legal copying or format shifting should not be
protected in legislation. Canada's public libraries place a high
priority on service to multicultural communities including recent
immigrants. Of necessity this requires the provision of audio-visual
collections which may have regional coding. TPM legislation as
formulated in other countries and the last copyright legislation tabled
in the House of Commons could be used to make illegal the ownership of
DVD players which bypass regional coding. Such an outcome is especially
unacceptable in a multicultural country such as Canada and certainly
has the potential to impede public library service.
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Thursday December 08, 2011 |
The copyright views of Canadian universities are typically represented
by the AUCC, but several universities have made their own views
known.
For example, Queen's University provided its own submission
to the 2009 national copyright consultation. It said the following
about digital locks:
Protection of digital locks must not impede users' rights.
Quoting from a book or a newspaper is established fair dealing, and it
ought to follow that quoting from a digital file would constitute fair
dealing too. If such fair dealing is prevented by digital locks, and
those are given an extra level of legal protection, scholars and
students will only be able to engage with an increasingly limited
portion of the world around us. Courses will become removed from the
cultural context of the times; critique and creativity will be stymied.
Teachers, students, and researchers need to be permitted to show and
recontextualize clips from digital media, or sequences of software
code, just as they were in the analog age permitted to copy "fairly"
for purposes of criticism, review, research, or private study. The
Supreme Court stated in CCH v. LSUC (2004) that "the fair dealing
exception is… an integral part of the Copyright Act… Any act falling
within the fair dealing exception will not be an infringement of
copyright. The fair dealing exception, like other exceptions in the
Copyright Act, is a user's right." The prevention of fair dealing with
digital locks would thus be not only a major threat to innovation and
teaching, but a a major distortion of the Copyright Act as understood
by our highest Court.
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Wednesday December 07, 2011 |
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BattleGoat Studios is a Canadian software developer founded in 2000.
The company has release several PC games that have won widespread
recognition. It has also been outspoken on copyright reform,
providing
a submission to the C-32 legislative committee that stated the
following on digital locks:
The addition of one simple principle to C-32 would make the bill
acceptable:
That the circumvention of Technical Protection Measures be permitted
for non-infringing uses. This would meet the requirements of the WIPO
treaties, and it would
properly permit consumers to use their Fair Dealing rights and
exemptions. It would still afford protection to content creators and
publishers, especially against the "large scale" infringement that
Ministers Moore and Clement say are the targets of Copyright Reform. Slashdot, Digg, Del.icio.us, Newsfeeder, Reddit, StumbleUpon, TwitterTagsShareWednesday December 07, 2011 |
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