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Canadian Copyright Consultation Begins
Last week the Canadian Government began a nationwide consultation on copyright modernization. There have been a couple attempts in the last couple of years to update the Canadian copyright laws and last year's Bill C-61 was widely criticized because it was perceived to have been written only with backroom consultation from lobby groups. This time the government has started a website where the public can participate and they are also having public meetings across Canada.
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There doesn't appear to be a lot of interest in this but Ars Technica has a piece on it.
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/n...-copyright.ars There's also a daily summary here if anyone is interested. http://www.michaelgeist.ca/ |
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I'm interested, and impressed the Canadian government has opened up the consultation to everyone.
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thank you barcey for the information ! |
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Thanks for bringing this to my attention. I have already submitted my two cents' worth... that IMHO, format shifting for personal use only after a legal purchase should be acceptable, even if it does require the removal of drm.
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I should have mentioned the potential world wide implications. If Alex has to move the servers to another country there could be an extended MobileRead outage.
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I wonder. When Australia moved from a life+fifty years to a life+70 years rule, all the works that were in the public domain stayed PD. In other words, the legislation was not restrospective.
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changes to copyright law are very rarely retroactive.
Just ask the heirs of George & Ira Gershwin. |
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When the EU harmonised copyright to the German standard of death+70 it was retrospective. Works that were public domain became copyrighted again. I can imagine what the legal cases would have been like for work done in that gap. |
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If I recall correctly, everyone who was using a work which had been in the public domain, but was no longer, was permitted to freely carry on using the work, but no new usage was permitted. |
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![]() Why not just ignore stuff that's fallen out of copyright under previous legislation? It'd keep things simple. |
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You misunderstand me, Sparrow. What I meant was that given the fact that works that had been in the public domain were taken back under copyright protection, the law had to specify what would happen to those works which had been "exploited" during their time in the public domain.
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Ah, I see - thanks for the clarification Harry.
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There was a transcript put up from the Vancouver meeting. (I was surprised that WDE wasn't quoted
![]() http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/008.nsf/eng/00060.html I was surprised to see the following comment from the Songwriters Association of Canada representative. I agree with him. Quote:
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