Canadian Heritage Minister James Moore was quick to criticize opposition concerns, but garnering the requisite votes to pass the legislation will require compromise. The good news is that there may be a path to finding common ground on each issue.
Appeared in the Hill Times on November 8, 2010 as In Search of a Compromise on Copyright Last week marked the return of the copyright debate to the House of Commons as Bill C-32 entered second reading. Six months after its introduction, it became immediately apparent that all three opposition […]
The full European Commission analysis:
As far as technical protection measures (TPMs) are concerned the aim of this provision is that only circumvention undertaken to commit an IP infringement can be made subject to civil or criminal liability.
The Writers Guild of Canada posts its views on Bill C-32. While I disagree with several of its positions, it is good to see a writer’s group be honest about the impact of digital locks: The only option that Bill C-32 offers creators is digital locks, which freezes current revenue […]
Video clips from the opposition comments to Bill C-32’s digital locks (along with MP Scott Simms bringing a copy of From “Radical Extremism” to “Balanced Copyright”: Canadian Copyright and the Digital Agenda to the debate):