Canada's New DMCA Considered Worst Copyright Law

loconet writes "The government of Canada is preparing to attempt to bring a new DMCA-modeled copyright law in Canada in order to comply with the WIPO treaties the country signed in 1997. (These treaties were also the base of the American DMCA.) The new Canadian law will be even more restrictive in nature than the American version and worse than the last Canadian copyright proposal, the defeated Bill C-60. Among the many restrictive clauses in this new law, as Michael Geist explains, is the total abolishment of the concept of fair use: 'No parody exception. No time shifting exception. No device shifting exception. No expanded backup provision. Nothing.' Geist provides a list of 30 things that can be done to address the issues."

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Re:To all the ass clowns blaming this on Harper.

[Wolvie MkM]

Wait I know! Mulroney? Nice try on the political slam ass-hat since Harper is squeaky clean eh. But wait, didn't we sign up to Kyoto as well? Harper had no trouble breaking that "required" treaty. Glad that you pick and choose the issues to bitch about.

Thanks for playing sport.