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The debate over copyright and digital locks – technically referred to as anti-circumvention legislation – dates back more than 25 years with creation of the World Intellectual Property Organization’s Internet Treaties and later in Canada with the enactment of the Copyright Modernization Act. The full scope and application of those digital lock rules has been the subject of considerable…

CIPPIC, Citizen Lab, and Internet Archive Post Online Harms Submissions

Submissions to Canada’s online harms proposal is becoming a deluge with CIPPIC, Citizen Lab, and Internet Archive. (more…)

Open Media Opens Petition in Anticipation of Liberals War on the Internet

Open Media isn’t taking any chances. They created a petition in anticipation of Canada’s war on the Internet. Continue reading

Open Letter Signed By Experts, Groups to Halt Canada’s War on the Internet

The actions of the government has prompted experts and organizations to pen an open letter urging the government to stop attacking the Internet. (more…)

When is a Copy not a Copy?: Technological Neutrality at Stake at the Supreme Court of Canada

The Supreme Court of Canada heard arguments yesterday in the copyright case of CBC v. SODRAC. While the case was ultimately about whether CBC should be required to pay royalties for incidental copies necessary to use new broadcast technologies, at stake was something far bigger: the future of technological neutrality under Canadian copyright law.

CBC arguedthat technological neutrality means that…