One week after my column asking for a legal TiVo in Canada, I got half my wish as TiVo's will soon be sold by several Canadian retailers. I suspect I'll have to wait much longer for a time shifting provision in Canadian copyright law.
Fair Dealing by Giulia Forsythe (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) https://flic.kr/p/dRkXwP
Copyright
Israel Amends Copyright Law
As Canada awaits a new copyright bill that is expected within the next couple of weeks, Israel just passed its own copyright reform package. It neatly avoids anti-circumvention legislation, but inclueds new rights for backup copies, interoperability, consumer rights with photographers, and drops crown copyright.
Locked Out
The Toronto Star on why Canadians are locked out of new devices and streaming programming. The article makes it clear it isn't copyright law, but rather licensing issues and market costs that are primarily to blame.
France To Adopt Three Strikes And You’re Out For File Sharing
France is about to implement new rules that will require ISPs to monitor their customers' activities and disclose file sharing activity to a new independent body. File sharers will receive three warnings and then lose Internet access. I appeared on the Business News Network today to discuss (about 32 minutes […]
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