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Fri, Jun 13th, 2008
Defending Bill C-61 today during question period was a piece of 8 1/2 by 11 and Colin Carrie, the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Industry. Carrie responded to NDP criticism that Bill C-61 was modeled after the flawed American DMCA by highlighting the made in Canada user rights included in the Bill. Reading from his script Carrie stated that the educational, format shifting, time shifting, private copying of music and ISP liability exemptions along with the statutory damages provision were made in Canada.
What Carrie failed to highlight is the fact that the core of Bill C-61, the anti-circumvention provisions were born in the United States and made worse in Canada. It is the anti-circumvention provisions that undermine each of the glossy exceptions and provisions the Conservative government is using to sell this legislation to Canadian consumers.
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Tags: c-61, colin carrie, copyright reform, dmca, jim prentice