Canadian Copyright Bill is nigh
p2pnet news view | Politics:- Dierdre McMurdy of the Ottawa Citizen confirms widespread speculation that a copyright bill is only a few weeks away.
The article notes the strong link between the bill and U.S. pressure with reports of meetings between U.S. Ambassador to Canada David Wilkins and both Industry Minister Jim Prentice and Canadian Heritage Minister Josee Verner.
That said, the article doesn’t get it all right.
Canada didn’t sign ACTA (we only agreed to participate in the negotiations), Microsoft’s move to Canada has more to do with U.S. immigration policy than Canadian IP law, and Wilkins typically (and misleadingly) claims Canada has the weakest copyright law in the G7, not the G8.
Michael Geist
[Geist is the Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-commerce Law at the University of Ottawa. He can be reached by email at mgeist[at]uottawa.ca and is on-line at www.michaelgeist.ca.]
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November 16th, 2007 at 1:31 pm
They CRIA/RIAA/MPAA can corrupt they way toas many crappy copyright laws as they will have no bearing and will be un-emforsable. It will just bring down these parasites further down in the opinion of their customer and increase the boycott further. Thank you for your help parasites! you are diging your grave deeper! Have a rotten death!
November 16th, 2007 at 10:07 pm
Look! Up in the sky! It’s a liar! It’s an extortionist! It’s—–Captain Copyright!