Canadian Supreme Court Entrenches Tech Neutrality In Copyright Law

Posted by Unknown on Tuesday July 17, 2012 @10:27AM from the prepare-for-battle dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Last week, a Canadian Supreme Court decision attracted attention for reduced copyright fees for music and video. Michael Geist has a detailed analysis that concludes there are two bigger, long term effects. First, Canada has effectively now adopted fair use. Second, the Supreme Court has made technological neutrality a foundational principle of Canadian copyright. The technological neutrality principle could have an enormous long-term impact on Canadian copyright, posing a threat to some copyright collective tariff proposals and to the newly enacted digital lock rules."

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Re:we are by Lynchenstein · 2012-07-17 11:07 · Score: 0, Troll

Yes instead of productive farmland, and animal teaming forests we have deserts and toxic waste-lands. But the exact same amount of land, except for the thousands of acres lost to glacier melt.
Right, but the acres of land "lost" has been replaced with water or swamp It is still all "environment". I'm just being pedantic since I don't have anything of value to add to this discussion on copyright... not trolling I hope.