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Submission from received Daniel Ballard on September 8, 2001 via e-mail
Subject: Canadian copyright reform based on DMCA
To the Intellectual Property Policy Directorate and other concerned agencies:I am writing you after finding out that the Canadian government has been considering plans on enacting a Canadian version of the United State's DMCA, named the Consultation Paper on Digital Copyright Issues (CPCDI).
This worries me greatly and I wanted to share my fears with you. Based on what we have seen in example from the DMCA and from what I hear you plan to do, I fear that far too much power would be given to publishers of software. Already, the DMCA is under legal attack in the US and has caused much concern in the tech and science industries through out the United States. Canada should most defiantly follow step, because it will simply drag us down, when we have a clear chance to stay on top.
Also, this only serves to waste the Canadian taxpayer's dollars in cases that will generally be protecting US companies.
Also it must be considered that 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. It would seem that we as a country are taking a step back wards, and away from freedom of speech and other such liberties we as a first world nation hold dear.
urge you to remove these controversial and anti-freedom provisions from the CPDCI language. The DMCA is already an international debacle. Its flaws should not be imported and forced on Canadians.
Sincerely,
Daniel Ballard
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