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FIGHT THE CANADIAN DMCA
I clicked through the facebook group to www.onlinerights.ca and found a super easy form email that will go to your MP, Prentice and the Heritage Minister.
The blurb on their site is;
Countdown to a New Copyright Bill
There are strong indications that, sometime in the next two weeks, Industry Minister Jim Prentice will introduce the Conservative's version of a new copyright bill. The word is that it be terrible step backward for Canadian copyright reform. It will contain a wholesale importing of the United States' dismal DMCA anti-circumvention regulations, with no new exceptions for parody or other "fair use" limitations and exceptions, and no fix for private copying or the levy. It's as though United States and major rightsholder lobbyists wrote a laundry list of wants, and the Conservatives were happy to hand it to them. We await the proposed language with concern, but in the meantime, write to your MP now, and urge them to take Canadian copyright into the 21st Century, not mimic the last decade of intellectual property missteps from the United States.
Check out Online Rights Canada's new action alert, "Support Balanced Copyright Reform":
http://www.OnlineRights.ca/get_active/copyright_reform_action/
Here's what their website says about it:
"Copyright reform legislation may be on the horizon. Tell your MPs to keep it balanced!"
1921 people have already taken action. Add your voice today!
FIGHT THE CANADIAN DMCA
I clicked through the facebook group to www.onlinerights.ca and found a super easy form email that will go to your MP, Prentice and the Heritage Minister.
The blurb on their site is;
Countdown to a New Copyright Bill
There are strong indications that, sometime in the next two weeks, Industry Minister Jim Prentice will introduce the Conservative's version of a new copyright bill. The word is that it be terrible step backward for Canadian copyright reform. It will contain a wholesale importing of the United States' dismal DMCA anti-circumvention regulations, with no new exceptions for parody or other "fair use" limitations and exceptions, and no fix for private copying or the levy. It's as though United States and major rightsholder lobbyists wrote a laundry list of wants, and the Conservatives were happy to hand it to them. We await the proposed language with concern, but in the meantime, write to your MP now, and urge them to take Canadian copyright into the 21st Century, not mimic the last decade of intellectual property missteps from the United States.
Check out Online Rights Canada's new action alert, "Support Balanced Copyright Reform":
http://www.OnlineRights.ca/get_active/copyright_reform_action/
Here's what their website says about it:
"Copyright reform legislation may be on the horizon. Tell your MPs to keep it balanced!"
1921 people have already taken action. Add your voice today!