Status Report on Copyright Reform

Here is an 11-page document (HTML or PDF format available from the linked page) in which the Ministers of Canadian Heritage and of Industry report to the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage their proposals for the next stages of the Section 92 copyright review process. It's rather disappointing. They basically go through the things that WIPO wants us to do, reporting them as (paraphrase) "Issue: We must give DRM some legal backing. Solution: Create legal backing for DRM." No discussion of whether, in fact, we really do need to give DRM legal backing; nothing about the possibility of not ratifying WIPO at all. No discussion of liability for linking. The opposing viewpoints that were already only barely represented in the Section 92 report, are not represented here at all. About the best things I can say about this document are that it allows for the possibility of notice-and-notice on ISP liability, and it doesn't propose new copyrights for databases or "traditional knowledge". This is not a consultation document and I'm not sure who one ought to complain to about it, but some of us are putting together a petition and when I know more about that, I'll post about it here. [Status Report on Copyright Reform]

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Status Report on Copyright Reform

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