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Submission from Mark Robinson received on August 30, 2001 2:15 PM via e-mail
Subject: Copyright reforms, digital
The proposed reforms are completely out side the scope of Copyright Law. As the term Copyright refers, it's the right to copy, not right to read. What these moficiations propse is Access-control. This is completely tangent to copyright. A truley noble application of this law would be allow a company, say Adobe, who manufactures e-book readers to prohibit blind people from having the device read the text aloud. This actually has happened. Also it would destroy Academic innovation. In the US, several major research papers have been retracted or even not published because of threats made under the DMCA. In fact, one researcher was even arrested and is facing 25 years in jail.
Canada has a great opportunity to leapfrog the US in the high-tech arena by *not* implementing these suggestions.
Mark Robinson
Victoria, BC
Canada
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