Canada’s New Copyright Law
Posted by Skrud at Tuesday, June 21st 2005 at 8:45am
Yesterday, our government tabled Bill C-60 [pdf] which addresses copyright infringement issues given all the lobbying that’s been done by the music industry (especially) and to a lesser extent, ISPs. Fortunately, the bill isn’t as grim and unforgiving as the United States’ DMCA, but it’s still pretty crappy. You can read more about it on Michael Geist’s blog, and I think he presents it pretty clearly. (I know I wouldn’t understand the legalese if I tried to read the actual bill).
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