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Submission from Dennis Edwards received on September 8, 2001 12:26 PM via e-mail
Subject: CPDCI
To Industry Canada, the Department of Canadian Heritage, the Intellectual Property Policy Directorate, and other concerned agencies:
I write to express my grave concern regarding the extreme intellectual property provisions of the Consultation Paper on Digital Copyright Issues (CPCDI).
These measures, based on the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DCA), give far too much power to publishers, at the expense of individuals rights. The DMCA itself is already under legal challenge in the US, and I expect it to fall eventually.
The CPDCI provisions serve no one but (largely American) corporate copyright interests, and are just as over broad as those of the DMCA.
These provisions would amend the Canadian Copyright Act to ban, with few or no exceptions, software and other tools that allow copy prevention technologies to be bypassed. This would violate the Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantee of freedom of speech, and similar guarantees in the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights, since such tools are necessary to exercise lawful uses, including fair use, reverse engineering, computer security research, and many others.
I urge you to remove these controversial and anti-freedom provisions from the CPDCI language. The DMCA is already an international debacle. It's flaws should not be imported and forced on Canadians. Let's set a good example to the world.
Sincerely.
Dennis Edwards.
Concerned Canadian Citizen
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