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An Open Letter to Harper on Fair Use

Meera Nair has crafted an excellent open letter to Prime Minister Stephen Harper urging the government to implement a fair use provision in the Copyright Act.

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  1. “Thus, borrowing and modifying contemporary American and Israeli law*, I propose the following text for an amended Bill C-32:
    … unauthorized use of a copyrighted work is permitted for purposes such as: research, private study, criticism, review, parody, satire, journalistic reporting, and quotation.”

    He should add indexing