‘Leave copyright out of trade agreements’
p2pnet view Politics:- With Canada on the verge of an election, opposition parties on the House of Commons heritage committee are calling on Harper’s Conservative government to make sure domestic copyright policies aren’t part of “any present or future trade negotiations”, says the Wire Report.
The government should “exclude copyright policy from trade negotiations” and instead “focus on developing international copyright policy through bodies like the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)”, said the committee report tabled on Monday.
Ottawa law professor Michael Geist (right) is quoted as saying the move by the opposition parties is significant as a spring election now appears unavoidable, stating the CETA and ACTA trade agreements depart from the conventional norms of what trade agreements should cover.
“This is not part of what we would traditionally think of with respect to market access, tariff barriers, and those sorts of issues around trade,” he says in the post, adding Canada can work with international partners to try and avoid putting copyright into trade agreements, according to the story.
“I think there are many jurisdictions we should be talking to that are like-minded on this issue”, he said.
verge of an election – Will Canada soon be under new management?, March 23, 2011
Wire Report – Exclude copyright from all trade agreements: Heritage committee report, March 23, 2011
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win ~ Mahatma Gandhi
World War III will be a global information war with no division between civilian & military participation ~ Marshall McLuhan
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March 24th, 2011 at 3:24 pm
ooh… the smell of elections suddenly make politicos’ blood rush to their brains. But seriously, that’s a rather sound proposition. I hope it sticks.