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With typical Canadian smugness, I have been comforted by the fact that we don't have a copyright law like the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) in the United States, which skews the balance between the public's right of fair use and the copyright holder's right to protect their content strongly in favor of the holders. Currently there's a big fuss because they've used the anti-circumvention part of the law, which makes it illegal to break digital copyright protections, against some Russian graduate student.

However it turns out we're not out of the woods in Canada. There is a Canadian Copyright Reform Process underway, and they are considering whether or not to add such anti-circumvention provisions into Canadian law. You must submit your comments to them by September 15, 2001. posted by Richard at 13:47 / permalink (post) | permalink (numeric)