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Copyright Reform Process

SUBMISSIONS RECEIVED REGARDING THE CONSULTATION PAPERS

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Submission from Dennis Taylor received on September 08, 2001 5:31 AM via e-mail

Subject: Consultation Paper on Digital Copyright Issues

To whom it may concern:

     I'm writing to express my concern about the frightening stance onintellectual property taken by the Consultation Paper on Digital Copyright Issues (CPDCI).

      So the American record and movie conglomerates got together,bought themselves a few U.S. senators, and wrote themselves a law (the Digital Millenium Copyright Act) which bends American consumers over the back of the proverbial bus seat -- taking away their legal rights to fair use for the music, movies and software which they bought with their own hard-earned money. What I'd like to know is, whose bright idea was it to export this ridiculous legislation, which is already being used as a legal weapon to crush free speech and arrest foreign nationals in the United States, to Canada?

      Seriously, people. It's not like Canadians would benefit from such legislation. The copyright holders who'll reap the rewards of our government's imcompetence, should some similar law be passed here, are the same American and Japanese mega-corporations who created the DMCA in America. Are we really that eager to become the 51st state?

      I am an American citizen, recently landed in Canada. Please, for the love of God, don't make Canada into everything that I tried to get away from. Without freedom of expression, there can be no democracy.

Sincerely,

                        Dennis P. Taylor

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