Canada copyright amendments
p2pnet.net News:- This week Canadians will learn what their government has in store for them under the final copyright amendments.
The Big Music record label cartel is hoping Canada will become another America where what they say, goes.
Once the amendments have been tabled, Expect a couple of paradoxes and another CRIA/MPAA collective misinformation campaign, CIPPIC`s (Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic) David Fewer told p2pnet.
They`ll probably say WIPO implementation doesn’t go far enough, and at the same time, they`ll try to say uploading (probably correct) AND downloading (incorrect) are illegal under the proposed law.
CRIA (Canadian Recording Industry Association of America) truth adjustment specialist Graham Henderson will be fronting for the labels and last Friday, the Globe & Mail`s Jack Kapica had an interesting column on Herr Henderson.
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CRIA spins the patter
By Jack Kapica – The Globe and Mail
Thursday morning on CTV’s Canada AM, Graham Henderson, new president of the Canadian Recording Industry Association, stated flat out that a bill to be tabled in Parliament next week will make swapping of music files over the Internet illegal in Canada.
He said, “What we know about [the proposed bill] is this: That there is no question that there is language in this proposed bill that is going to make it categorical – illegal to upload, illegal to download, without question.”
This is odd, if only because other observers of the copyright issues are under no such certainty. Many, in fact, believe the bill will have no effect on the legality of downloading.
If Mr. Henderson is this certain, then someone in government has given him a peek at the proposed legislation or told him what’s in it. Either way, it’s highly improper at best, scandalous at worst. No one gets a look at a bill before it’s introduced – although interested parties would have been consulted, and have a general idea of what to expect.
If Mr. Henderson does have an inside track, however, it gives rise to speculation that the government is getting very cozy with the recording industry in formulating law, an inside track it hasn’t offered to other industries interested in copyright.
I asked Mr. Henderson where he got his “without question” information.
Friday, he answered via e-mail. “I’m basing my understanding of what’s in the proposed bill on the government’s statement of intention dated 24 March 2005 and subsequent discussions with officials when we sought clarification on various issues,” he wrote.
That’s a big difference from “categorical” and “without question.”
Perhaps Mr. Henderson was just indulging in wishful thinking.
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June 13th, 2005 at 11:21 pm
We must own and operate the citizens of Canada. No exceptions.
This current copyright reform falls short of our ultimate goal of virtual ownership and control of your livingrooms, pc’s, radios, TVs, even your refridgerator and how you as owners (lol, well not really owners of anything, oops, did I write that?) use this equipment…this is not the end of our efforts and our foreign MNC master’s lobbying effort to bend Canadian law to our will.
- Graham Henderson