Post Tagged with: "Copyright Canada"

61 Reforms to C-61, Day 36: TPMs – No Identification of Authorized Circumventers

The removal of the provisions that target the legality of circumvention devices is one way to help ensure that the law does not eliminate basic copyright user rights.  There are other approaches, however, that can be introduced in tandem with that change. New Zealand's new copyright law introduces the concept […]

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August 11, 2008 6 comments News

Meeting With Bob Rae on C-61

A constituent reports on their meeting with Liberal MP Bob Rae.

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August 11, 2008 2 comments News

61 Reforms to C-61, Day 35: TPMs – Unnecessary Coverage of Circumvention Devices

I have spent much of the past month identifying problems with Bill C-61's anti-circumvention provisions.  While the bill misses many necessary exceptions and includes exceptions that do not withstand careful analysis, even the current list of exceptions pre-suppose that a person has the technical ability to circumvent.  There may be a group of Canadians with sufficient technical expertise to do so, but my sense is that the overwhelming majority would not even know where to begin. 

There are several mechanisms that could be used to address this issue (and note that it must be addressed or else even the meagre exceptions within C-61 will be illusory).  The first would be to ensure that the bill does not touch the legality of circumvention devices themselves.  

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August 8, 2008 6 comments News

Fry on C-61

Liberal MP Hedy Fry, who has conducted several copyright reform roundtables in B.C. and Alberta, discusses the bill in this interview.  Fry says the question is whether the bill can be fixed or should be opposed outright.

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August 7, 2008 1 comment News

61 Reforms to C-61, Day 33: TPMs – LAM and Educational Institution Limitations, Part One

As noted earlier in the series, unlike some other countries, there is no anti-circumvention exception for teaching in Bill C-61.  The one nod to the special considerations for libraries, archives, museums, and educational institutions in the anti-circumvention rules comes in Section 41.19 with regard to potential damages.  That provision states […]

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August 6, 2008 Comments are Disabled News