Comments on: Canadian copyright revision

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 22 Mar 2005 18:10:35 +0000

What other links should I bookmark to keep up with the Canadian digital copyright issues?

Is CANFLI no longer the number 1 site? http://www.canfli.org/index.php

High on the list is Dr. Geist’s site http://www.michaelgeist.ca/

http://p2pnet.net/ of course.

Thanks for your article RMcO–I’m combing through your links now.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 21 Mar 2005 19:29:37 +0000

How you interpreted things is what has been implied to me so far. Nobody has been willing to just tell me as this policy has to follow the regular channels.

We will know very soon. Hopefully when this happens people will be at the digital-copyright.ca site and help us dissect the proposed legislation.

As to the manufacture/distribution of tools with “substantial non-infringing uses” this is something that is being challenged in a different setting. If you are not already watching it you want to watch the Grokster case where US dinosaur-industry extremists are trying to overturn the Sony decision which clarified the legality of VCR’s.

http://www.eff.org/IP/P2P/MGM_v_Grokster/

Russell McOrmond - http://www.digital-copyright.ca/

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 21 Mar 2005 09:04:06 +0000

does this mean the canadian implementation will be more like what the currently ill fated “Digital millennium consumer rights act” specifies?

E.G. you are only punished for circumvention if you use it to infringe rather than for normal personal use by consumers?

what about actual manufacture/distribution of tools? because if the following is so, it means nothing if people aren’t allowed to market or buy the tools for such fair use.