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Commentaires pour le 20 juillet 2009 [Partie 3/3]
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Commentaire
A leader doesn't follow, a leader doesn't bend to the will of large foreign corporations. In order to lead this government must first stop following and not be afraid to stand on its own for the interests of its citizens. Our laws must reflect the will of Canadians, this is an extremely simple and fundamental concept.
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pneves [2009-07-22 23:37] Nº du commentaire : 587 Reply to: 98
I agree with you. Its too often that our government, be it liberal or conservative, goes along with the will of foreign governments and ignores the will of the people. Its too bad treason is no longer a crime in this country. I could see many politicians that have gone to Ottawa that could be brought up on such charges for the way they have stood on issues.
Commentaire
Copyright should be modernized to ensure that copyright holders are fairly compensated in some way, but prevented from abusing their privileges and unduly influencing the Canadian marketplace.
Copyright infringement should only be enforceable if the work is in fact made available by the copyright holder in the format of the alleged infringement.
Fair dealing needs to be explicitly specified in the Copyright Act. If the term of copyright is not shortened, it should irreversibly lapse once the work is no longer commercially available from the copyright holder.
Modification, reverse engineering, and distributing patches for the purpose of ensuring software or hardware functionality should be explicitly allowed.
For works where the copyright is held by a corporation, the copyright term should be a fixed time from the date of publication.
Statutory damages should only be available in cases of commercial copyright infringement. For non-commercial infringement real damages should have to be proven in court.
If a copyrighted work is licensed, moving it from one format to another should not constitute infringement.
Lastly, there should be fines for frivolous allegations of copyright infringement or intentional interference with protected fair dealing.
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rakey2_anotherlawyer [2009-07-21 04:25] Nº du commentaire : 149 Reply to: 54
"Statutory damages should only be available in cases of commercial copyright infringement. For non-commercial infringement real damages should have to be proven in court.
If a copyrighted work is licensed, moving it from one format to another should not constitute infringement.
Lastly, there should be fines for frivolous allegations of copyright infringement or intentional interference with protected fair dealing.
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this is brilliantly put. Protects the copyright owners and does not criminalize sharing of culture for personal use and does not allow frivolous lawsuits with a wide net that could ruin innocent lives.
JJeffrey [2009-07-21 08:08] Nº du commentaire : 154 Reply to: 54
This bill is a lazy way of 'fixing' the broken music industry model. Passing this bill is a huge step backward, not only for consumer rights but also for any innovation that would come in a digital economy. This law protects music execs who are too lazy to come up with something new. This country should be leaders in this avenue. Certainly we have the brains to come up with something that doesn't take all power from the consumer and allows artists to make money.
DBottawa [2009-07-21 09:31] Nº du commentaire : 159 Reply to: 154
I agree that most of the external pressure to update the copyright act does seem to be coming from the American movie and music industries, and I can't imagine anything worse than C-61 for Canada and Canadians, but that's not what we have in front of us here.
I feel that some form of copyright does have a place in Canada, although I think this is a wonderful opportunity to strengthen copyright users rights.
I for one am going to take this opportunity to tell the government what I want to see in a new copyright bill, and try not to focus too much on what I don't want to see.
I think the single biggest challenge that needs to be addressed is putting in place strong deterrents to copyright abuse. This means strengthening and explicitly defining fair dealing, and implementing fines for frivolous claims of infringement or intentional interference with protected fair dealing.
crade [2009-07-21 13:31] Nº du commentaire : 211 Reply to: 159
Indeed. We need to make sure that frivilous complaints are not alowed, and that copyright complaints filed for purposes other than protecting the copyrighted material must be strictly dealt with. Politicians requesting copyright holders to issue copyright notices for political purposes, or companies issuing takedown notices for the purpose of censoring unwanted content can not be tolerated or ignored.
