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Canadian Gov't Asks Public About New Copyright Law

Posted by timothy on from the hunched-on-the-border-stealing-our-wifi dept.

Mike Lawrie writes "The so-called Canadian DMCA has had a long history. Historically, proposed legislation has favoured the views of CRIA, the Canadian arm of the RIAA almost completely. However, this time around the government is consulting the public before drafting the bill. They have launched a (Linux-based!) website designed to provide a public forum for discussion. Now is the time to speak up."

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  1. Re:What can I say? by eln · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Don't get too excited just yet. Just because they're soliciting feedback doesn't mean they'll listen to it. More than likely, they'll cherry pick public responses that support what they were going to do anyway, and use them to claim they have "public support".

  2. Re:What can I say? by TheRaven64 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    They're doing better than the UK government. Over here, they spend a lot of money getting reports researched and then do the opposite. At least the Canadians aren't wasting much money on finding the opinions to ignore...

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  3. Re:How about we leave things as-is? by Xiph · · Score: 5, Insightful

    To Cement fair use
    To reduce ridiculous copyright lengths
    To differentiate between commercial and personal abuse
    To ensure that the copyright legislation promotes diversion creation of culture.

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