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Googling May Break Copyright in Canada

Posted by samzenpus on from the stop-searching dept.

twray writes "From The Globe&Mail: Could it be possible that Canada will make Google or any other Internet search and archiving engines illegal? Bill C-60, which amends the Copyright Act and received its first reading in the House of Commons on June 20, suggests it could be illegal for anyone to provide copyrighted information through "information-location tools," which includes search engines."

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  1. Re:Short and sweet by TheOneBiscuit · · Score: 1, Troll

    While you could google 'tyrany', I would suggest 'tyranny'. ;)

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  2. Who Wins? MS does by WindBourne · · Score: 0, Troll

    Right now, Google has a very large number fo machines for doing nothing but simple crawling and categorizing of the net. If this is enacted, then search engines will no longer do a pull. It will ALWAYS have to be a push. MS has almost certainly modified Longhorn to push to their search engine, by default. And since it was a push, MS can argue in court that the customer is responsible. Even if the gov. decides to sue, it will take years. In the mean time, Google will be denied access to the raw data, and MS will have it all.

    I would not be surprised to see a ms very-friendly hand behind this bill.

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