Appeared on August 18, 2008 as PVR, Bill C-61 Might Soon Make You An Outlaw Canadians watching the Olympic coverage from Beijing can hardly have missed the Bell commercial touting a new digital video recorder that features an external hard drive permitting users to "record forever." The archiving functionality may […]
Fair Dealing by Giulia Forsythe (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) https://flic.kr/p/dRkXwP
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The Globe and Mail on C-61
The Globe and Mail publishes its masthead editorial on C-61. The verdict? While supportive of the intent of copyright reform, it notes the concern over how the bill mirrors the DMCA and expresses disappointment over the failure to extend and adapt fair dealing, stating that: Perhaps the Conservatives do not […]
Athabasca University VP on C-61
Athabasca University Associate Vice-President of Research Rory McGreal has a great op-ed in the Edmonton Journal. McGreal argues that "the proposed new Bill C-61 will have profound negative effects on researchers and educators as well as the general public, preventing them from exercising their historical rights. We need to balance […]
Canadian Press on the Canadian Copyfight
The Canadian Press covers the online fight for fair copyright and against Bill C-61.
Prince George Citizen on C-61’s Flaws
The Prince George Citizen runs an opinion piece on the flaws in Bill C-61.
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