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Made Worse in Canada – The Video Version
A recent entrant in the C-61 in 61 Seconds competition.
61 Reforms to C-61, Day 45: Making Available Right and Actual Distribution
Bill C-61 unsurprisingly includes a new "making available" provision that grants performers and sound recording makers the exclusive right to make their works available. Two provisions establish the making available right in the bill (similar rights are already granted to authors and composers). Section 15 (1.1)(d) provides that a performer's […]
Dion Promises to Revise C-61?
Liberal MP Garth Turner held a huge town-hall meeting with Stephane Dion on Wednesday night that included a question and answer session with several dozen bloggers. Reports indicate that copyright was one of the issues raised with Dion promising to revise C-61 to strike a better balance between consumers and […]
“A One Issue Voter”
David RD Gratton, currently a Conservative, explains that he will not be renewing his party membership due to Bill C-61.
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