Canada Introduces Legislation to Amend Copyright Laws

By News on the Net —— Bio and Archives June 3, 2010

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By Alexandre Deslongchamps (Bloomberg) -- Canada today introduced new copyright legislation that will protect digital locks companies put on DVDs and other content, allow transfers for personal use and free Internet providers of liability for piracy by users.

“Our law governing copyright hasn’t kept pace with the breakneck speed at which digital technologies are changing,” Industry Minister Tony Clement said today in Montreal. “This bill won’t be restricted to today’s realities but will remain relevant to the technologies of tomorrow.” The legislation implements international treaties on intellectual property Canada negotiated in 1996, allowing it to ratify them, and bringing the country in line with others in the Group of Eight, Clement said. More...