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>[21.jun.05] Copyright
- Canada proposes tightening copyright law
Source: Managing Intellectual
Property
The Canadian government introduced new legislation today
that would tighten aspects of copyright law in ways
generally favorable to interests such as record labels
and movie studios.
The proposal, which is
already drawing protest from some digital consumer circles,
is aimed at bringing the country more in line with copyright
statues in the United States and other countries. Canada
has diverged from several other countries in waiting
to implement aspects of the 1996 World Intellectual
Property Organization treaty, which led to legislation
such as the Digital Millennium Copyright Act in the
United States.
Among many other aspects,
the proposed legislation would create a new exclusive
"making available" right to copyright holders,
responding in part to recent court rulings that said
file-swapping in Canada was legal. It would also add
a ban on breaking through digital copy protection (with
some exceptions), in many respects similar to the "anti-circumvention"
prohibitions in the United States.
Canadian record
companies praised the legislation's introduction, while
saying it didn't go far enough to "protect digital
businesses from hackers."
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