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Canadian Prime Minister To Music Lobby: Here's Your Copyright Term Extension
An anonymous reader writes: The Canadian government's decision to extend the term of copyright
for sound recordings in the budget may have taken most copyright
observers by surprise, but not the music industry. The extension
will reduce
competition, increase
costs for consumers, and harm
access to Canadian Heritage, but apparently all it took was a
letter from the music industry lobby to the Prime Minister of
Canada. Michael Geist reports on a
letter sent by Prime Minister Stephen Harper to the music
lobby on the day the change was announced confirming
that industry lobbying convinced him to extend the term of copyright
without any public consultation or discussion.
Isn't that Copyright protection was extended. That's bad enough, buit is in good company of poorly thought out laws that burocracies and governments have to live with.
What really bothers me is the Canadian government following the Amerian example of sneaking new laws in completely unrelated bills. A change to the copyright act should have been made in a bill ammeding the copyright act. How can a legal system possibly be sutainable when you have to start looking at annual budget bills of some obscure decade to figure out the copyright statues currently in place?? This practice serves no purprose, other than as a trick for governments to sneak in legal statues they would otherwise not legally be able to do due to opposition, either legislative or public.
We have more than two political parties in Canada. The choice isn't limited to "Conservatives or Liberals". You can vote for NDP, Green Party, etc.
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