The copyright consultation is days away from its conclusion and missing content from the consultation website has emerged as a problem. The posting of submissions has been inconsistent throughout the process, but that may be a result of volume. The delays in posting transcripts from the invitation-only roundtables, however, is […]
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Bell: Why Don’t Content Owners Sue Our Subscribers?
The government has just posted the audio from the Toronto copyright roundtable held in late August. The discussion started off with a bang with comments from Bell Canada. Bell had a lot of good things to say including support for the positions of Business Coalition for Balanced Copyright. The discussion […]
CCER Posts Copyright Submission
The Canadian Coalition for Electronic Rights has posted its copyright consultation submission, addressing issues such as anti-circumvention legislation, fair dealing, ISP liability, and the need for technological neutrality.
Six Days Left: Canadian Net Users Caught As Copyright Consultation Nears Conclusion
[The following post appears simultaneously as a guest post on TorrentFreak today]
Seven weeks ago, the Canadian government launched the first national copyright consultation since 2001. The consultation, which has featured town hall meetings, by-invitation-only roundtables, an online discussion forum, and an open submission process, has attracted considerable interest with over 4,000 submissions to date.
While the overwhelming majority of those submissions have called for balanced reforms that would strengthen fair dealing, create a liability safe harbour for intermediaries, and link any new anti-circumvention rules to actual copyright infringement, there is reason for concern.
There are only six days left in the consultation and the thousands that have spoken out for fair copyright – the students, teachers, Internet users, software programmers, privacy advocates, librarians, and a growing number of creators – now find themselves under attack from two sides.
How UK Government Spun 136 People Into 7 Million Illegal File Sharers
The BBC reports on how the UK government turned a single survey in which 136 people indicated they file shared to claim that there are seven million file sharers in the country. Similar exaggerations occured in Canada earlier this year when the Conference Board of Canada relied on a 2006 […]
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