Get it straigh. You are like me, an ordinary guy. The problems you may have in setting up a web page are not the concern of lawmakers. We ordinary people do not count at all. We are cast adrift in the confusing world we cannot understand, the world of the laws and the courts, where we ordinary guys have no chance at all, except for loosing our shirts. My advise to you is do as I do, don’t do any web page or remove the one you have. Also do nothing related to movies or music. Who knows, one day you may go to a an all Bach concert where unauthorized of Bach “arrangements” were played. You may then be arrested for patronizing or financing the ilegal use of music. I no longer have a computer, go to movies or to concerts, listen to the radio or watch television. I live in a remote Island with no electricity, to make sure I cannot break the laws I never heard of. I cannot be arrested. At last, safe.

What if I have on my web site many links (over 50) to YouTube videos with songs. Some videos are television productions that have multiple songs from different songwriters (each who presumably originally authorized the song use). I have no idea if the songwriter or their publishers have authorized the placing of their songs on YouTube or if any takedown notices have been filed with YouTube.

The questions are:
Can I be sued for illegally distributing songs?
20,000 dollars per song, or 20,000 x 50 (one million dollars)?
For multiple song videos, what if one author doesn’t mind and the other does, is the whole video unusable?
Is the liable party (the infringer) the original person who posted the video on YouTube?
What if the original is from a foreign countru and cannot be found, will I then carry the burden of the infringement?
Can Canada enforce its laws in american territory to make Youtube and others like it pay for infringement?

Until someone produces a copyright law that answers every possble scenario in the Internet age, no law is worth the paper it is written on. If the idea is that the courts will decide, that is rewrite the law, then the country is being taken for a ride by corrupt and ncopetent politicians. Anyway that is the case.

The best thing we as consumers can do is:

1. write our MP’s indicating our displeasure

2. STOP BUTING OVERPRICED CD’s, DVD’s ETC, ESPECIALLY ONLINE, FOR 1 MONTH AND EMAIL THE RETAILERS, SUPPLIERS AND TELL THEM WHY!!

We are the customer, without us they die, express our displeasure the best way we can.
Collectively we can destroy them (not my objective), so lets let them know we are not happy about this.

-Zoxman

That aside, this is a bad bill. Repealing sections 10 and 13(2) of the current act I believe are unreasonable. A commissioned work should be copyright by the party who commissioned the work given the absence of any other agreement, such as a contract. Essentially, the creator is under the employ of the commissioning party and in the case of employment, work is owned by the employer. Copyright should protect the creators, the public, and the public interest, not the technologies the limit access to content. Circumvention of such protection for the use of legally aquired goods for it’s fair use should not be illegal.

i) The Conservative Party believes that the objectives of copyright legislation

should be:

a) to create opportunities for Canadian creators to enjoy the fruits of their labour to the greatest possible extent;

b) to ensure that the rights of Canadian creators are adequately protected by law;

c) that these rights are balanced with the opportunity for the public to use copyrighted works for teaching, researching and lifelong learning;

d) to continue to allow an individual to make copies of sound recordings of musical works for that person’s personal and individual use; and

e) that enforcement is applied fairly and in accordance with international standards.

ii) The Conservative Party believes that reasonable access to copyright works is a critical necessity for learning and teaching for Canadian students and teachers, and that access to copyrighted materials enriches life long learning and is an essential component of an innovative economy.

iii) A Conservative Government will give consideration to educational public policy goals within the copyright framework. A Conservative Government will work with industry to increase awareness and develop a public education campaign to better inform users and creators on the copyright laws in Canada.

iv) A Conservative Government will eliminate the levy on blank recording materials.

American or Canadian it all just don’t matter. The dick head who screwed over millions of people and got rich from it will always be the true leader of both our Countries.

maybe its time we kick harper and his party out of canada and deport them to the usa.
they want to destroy our health care, our schools and now our digital rights.

Q: “How can you tell if a polition is being dishonest?”
A: “Their lips are moving”

-Why has the Conservative government sacrificed consumer safety and privacy to satisfy the American Media cartels?-
Its really simple. The conservative agenda has been solely based on increasing the potential for big business to increase profits. Everything from the GST rebate which provides big business with astronomical tax breaks, to the slow privatization of health care, to laws like this that open up ordinary people to lawsuits by big business. BTW did u hear that in Alberta the conservatives increased their pay by 35% while they wont pay decent wages to its top health care providers which has resulted in 4 of the top doctors to resign. they will starve the health care until it collapses at which point they will introduce our savior the private health care which will most certainly start to drain the blood from our veins as soon as we tap into it. Every single policy they adopt is centered on providing benefits to large corporations and AMERICANIZATION. Wouldn’t be surprised if this guy eventually starts splitting up Canada into small pieces that the US can later inhale. Or perhaps his plans with bush to establish a north American union which will really be the integration of north America into the US in essence. Oh ya dont forget this is still the face of the conservative party on their best behavior. if they got majority in the government i mean god save us. Never trust the serpent who tries to deceive you.

DRM is bad for consumers; it violates their privacy and, as evidence by Sony, puts their computers in danger of being hacked. Why has the Conservative government sacrificed consumer safety and privacy to satisfy the American Media cartels?