p2pnet - rss feed: Canadian copyright bill is ‘bad’
p2pnet.net News:- The Canadian government’s C-60 copyright bill is “dangerous legislation,” says Red Hat co-founder Bob Young.
The government has failed to demonstrate a need for it and, “There’s no evidence that these new rights will benefit Canadians, Canadian companies, or the Canadian economy,” says Young, a member of Canada’s Digital Security Coalition (DSC).
“In fact, the US experience with anti-circumvention laws suggests the opposite: anti-circumvention laws are bad for security researchers, bad for consumers and bad for competition.”
Bill C-60, “calls for a massive transfer of rights and entitlements out of the hands of the Canadian public, and into the hands of copyright holders,” said CIPPIC (Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic) executive director Philippa Lawson yesterday.
Foreign content industries should be, “very, very happy with the government’s draft legislation,” she said.
And the losers are, “Canadian consumers, educators, students, Canada’s security research community, Canada’s public domain and Canadian innovators and creators, whose interests have been sacrificed to the wishes of collectives and multinational entertainment companies.”
The legislation proposes to introduce a series of new rights to benefit copyright holders, including prohibitions on the circumvention of technological protection measures (TPMs) and on tampering with rights management information (RMI). Rights holders use TPMs and RMI like digital locks to regulate access to and use of digital content,” says the DSC..
Its members include: Third Brigade, Ltd; Bob Young, co-founder and director of Red Hat, founder of Lulu and owner of the Hamilton Tiger-Cats Football Team; Cinnabar Networks Inc; AEPOS Technologies Corporation; Borderware Technologies Inc; Certicom Corp; Credentica; Elytra Enterprises Inc; Innusec Inc; Klocwork Inc; Q1 Labs Inc; Random Knowledge Inc; Synomos Inc; and, VE Networks Inc.
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See:-
transfer of rights - Not a happy day for Canadians, p2pnet, June 20S, 2005
TPM - TPMs and copyright, p2pnet, June 16, 2004
June 21st, 2005 at 8:18 pm
The new copywrite law in Canada is rediculious… why did they give in to the fucking USA?
This law will never benefit Canadians… NO… all it will do is take more money out of Canada, and give it to American big music and movies…
Cause we all know thats whats going to happen, its just there so the MPAA and RIAA can sue canadians now… which is bullcrap… just because our american laws give power to fucked up big corperations… doesn’t mean we have the right to enforce them on other countries.
June 22nd, 2005 at 12:13 am
It is interesting that people appropriately see this as giving in to the demands of specific US corporations. The Bloc MPs in Heritage committee are supporting this as they believe it protects the rights of Canadian creators, and protects cultural diversity and Canadian culture.
If you know anyone who lives in Quebec, please have them talk to any of the Bloc MPs and inform them on what is really going on.