p2pnet news | Politics:- Canada’s on-again off-again DMCA is off.

Again.

“Sometime between yesterday afternoon and this morning, the government decided to hold off,” blogs Michael Geist, going on:

At 10:00 am this morning [ET], the introduction of new government bills came and went without a new copyright bill.

The Industry Minister’s press secretary has advised journalists that the bill will not be introduced today or tomorrow.

Since the House of Commons will break at the end of the week, the Canadian DMCA will not be introduced until at least late January.

Now, at a time when Canadian politicians seem more concerned about American demands than those of the people who elected them, it’s a chance for Prentice to do what he should have been doing all along.

He can, “brush aside the momentary embarrassment of the delays and instead work toward a genuine copyright balance by reaching out to all Canadians,” says Geist, adding:

“As astonishing number of people have voiced their concern over the past two weeks and the government seems to have listened.

“Now it must act by openly consulting and engaging with a country that genuinely cares about copyright.”

Jon Newton - p2pnet

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Also See:
on-again - Canadian DMCA: arriving today?, December 13, 2007
Michael Geist - No Canadian DMCA This Year, December 13, 2007

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