Friday, June 11, 2010 1:55 pm | By Anthony Lizan
Ottawa’s Bill C-32 , the Copyright Modernization Act, is currently making its way through the Canadian Parliament. If it passes, it will bar Canadians from breaking digital locks on entertainment products—including music and movies—to duplicate the content. The bill also includes a “notice-to-notice” provision that allows copyright holders to warn internet service providers of suspected piracy. The service providers are then obliged to tell their customers that they are breaking the law. The bill is Canada’s attempt to comply with the World Intellectual Property Organization’s treaty that it signed in 1997.
This bill is great news for copyright holders, intellectual property rights advocates, and innovators in general. As noted in the 2010 International Property Rights Index, “copyright piracy levels continued to be somewhat high for a well developed country – estimated at an average of 33 percent. As a result, the country was added to the “priority watch list” by the U.S. Trade Representative. Moreover, reflective of the lack of progress with respect to IPR protection is the fact that expert option on protection of intellectual property rights has deteriorated since 2009.” With Canada’s lax attitude towards IP protection, this new bill is a step in the right direction. It gives more power and protections to the people who help drive the Canadian economy.
Canada remains one of the only developed countries not to have implemented internet protections agreed to in copyright treatys. Implementation of C-32 would be a positive step in combating IP theft and copyright infringement in Canada.
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So proud of my province and country! As someone who works in the music business, this law will do wonders for the industry.
So let me get this straight, the World Intellectual Property Organization sign's a treaty in Geneva in 1997 and Canada "attempts" to comply by creating a Bill C-32 some 13 years later. Wow! piracy of Intellectual Property is apparently at the top of the list by Canada's politicians. Thank God it wasn't something important, like bailing out the BIG 3 auto manufacturers. It amazes me, I would say with confidence that Parliament has collectively "obstructed justice" and the Supreme Court of Canada has allowed a grand violation of the Charter of Rights. Do any of you realize how much money in sales occurred between 1997 and 2010. The Government's quick and responsible plan of action shows that CIPO and the governing bodies will be easy targets to ensnare one by one in accountability and gross negligence allegations. How completely irresponsible of you who are involved. Shame on those who have knowledge and did nothing. You know who you are, and the limitations of grounds for financial renumeration are boundless. God Save The Queen and Ohhhhh No Canada. My grandfathers fought in Two World Wars for the protection of the elite, I think not. Please don't allow the loss of many lives to hand on the hefty pocket books of those who would turn a blind eye, to facilitate obvious theft.
COWARDS!
Michael Dean Hajas
mdean707@hotmail.com
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