Peter Suber reports that the EU has taken another step forward with its ambitious digitization program. Where is a much-needed Canadian strategy backed by government support?
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30 Days of DRM – Day 08: Privacy (Circumvention Rights)
The approach in Bill C-60 was to limit (the government believed eliminate) the need for circumvention rights by creating a direct link between circumvention and copyright. Bill C-60 only made it an offence to circumvent a technological measure for the purposes of copyright infringement. In other words, if you had another purpose – for example, protecting your personal privacy – the anti-circumvention provision would not be triggered.
If the new copyright bill adopts a U.S. style approach, then a crucial part of the discussion will be whether the government has identified all the necessary rights to limit the harms associated with anti-circumvention legislation. While these rights might be characterized by some as exceptions, I think they are more appropriately viewed as circumvention rights, analogous to the Supreme Court of Canada's emphasis on user rights.
Privacy protection is an obvious example of a circumvention right.
Terry McBride Profiled
Wired offers an interesting look at Terry McBride, the founder of Nettwerk and Canada's most forward-looking record executive.
CRTC Denies Hate Site Request
The CRTC has issued a quick decision on the Warman request to allow Canadian ISPs to block access to two U.S. based hate sites. The Commission denied the application, basing its decision primarily on the fact that other parties (the carriers, the sites) were not provided with notice and the […]
30 Days of DRM – Day 07: DRM-Free Library Deposits (Public Protection)
Legal deposit, first established in France in 1587, is a commonly used to preserve national heritage by mandating the collection of all published works. The National Library administered legal deposit in Canada from 1953 until 2004, when responsibility was assumed by the Library and Archives Canada. The LAC describes the […]