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“The Sleeper Political Issue of the Season”

The Toronto Star's Susan Delacourt on copyright reform.

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June 25, 2008 1 comment News

The Copyright Act With C-61

Felix helpfully creates a new version of the Copyright Act that incorporates the provisions found in C-61 (PDF format, OpenOffice format).

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June 24, 2008 Comments are Disabled News

61 Reforms to C-61, Day 2: Format Shifting Limited to Videocassettes

One of Bill C-61's "consumer-oriented provisions" (as emphasized by Industry Minister Jim Prentice) is the arrival of format shifting.  Prentice's opening remarks focused on how consumers will be able to legally "format shift" music, photographs, and books under the new bill.  Yet the format shifting provisions for video are nothing […]

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June 23, 2008 Comments are Disabled Stop CDMCA

61 Reforms to C-61, Day 2: Format Shifting Limited to Videocassettes

One of Bill C-61's "consumer-oriented provisions" (as emphasized by Industry Minister Jim Prentice) is the arrival of format shifting.  Prentice's opening remarks focused on how consumers will be able to legally "format shift" music, photographs, and books under the new bill.  Yet the format shifting provisions for video are nothing […]

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June 23, 2008 16 comments News

Yukon News on C-61

This editorial from the Yukon News titled Copyright Law Puts Canadians at Risk is well worth the registration requirement.  It begins by focusing on the Search Engine interview: Jim Prentice fled. Like a sissy. And you can’t really blame him. Prentice’s proposed copyright legislation is a selloff of Canadian citizens’ […]

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June 23, 2008 1 comment News