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Copyright Reform Process
Submissions Received Regarding the Consoultation papers
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Submission from Eve Kotyk received on September 8, 2001 via e-mail
Subject: CPDCI
TO: Industry Canada, the Department of Canadian Heritage, the Intellectual Property Policy Directorate and other concerned agencies:RE: Consultation Paper on Digital Copyright Issues (CPCDI).
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.
Making and enforcing copyright law is difficult matter. I can not emphasize enough that heavy regulations of ideas and product can only have a detrimental effect on the growth of our society and country as a whole. Innovation and advancement has always been based on the ideas and products of those that came before us. Though I would not wish the artists, writers, musicians and software developers to suffer from the misuse of their ideas and works, I think to introduce legislations such as that recommended in the DPDCI is discouraging to the whole of Canadian society, includein those artists, writers musicians and software developers that this regulations proposes to protect. The internet has evolved into the free market of the Bazaar and its advances are due entirely to the lack of regulations imposed upon it. I urge you to remove these controversial and anti-freedom provisions from the CPDCI language.
Sincerely,
Eve Kotyk
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