New Canadian Copyright bill coming Thursday?
According to an article today by Michael Geist, one of Canada’s leading copyfighters, it looks like the replacement for the defunct bill C61 is going to be tabled by the Conservative government as early as Thursday.
In Geist’s round up, he points out out that DMCA style anti-circumvention legislation, the most contentious part of C61, will remain intact, though there may be flexibility on time and format shifting. It also looks like the government is aiming to fast track the bill through Parliament. Geist also includes a quote from Industry Minister Tony Clement, which while sounding positive, struck me personally as oddly worried…
“I’m not coming down from the mountain with this chiseled in stone. This bill may have elements in it where we could seek some consensus and there could be some positive amendments to this bill. That’s certainly in the realm of possibility too, and let the process begin. [from Canoe]”
Now, this is just a guess on my part, being a bit of a language cop, but when you say ‘there could be some positive amendments…’ it sounds like you already know there’s some amount of negative to be amended. Whether this reflects Tony Clement’s point of view versus others in his party or not would be speculation. The wording IS curious though.
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