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Submission from Cory Syvenky received on September 9, 2001 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 concern regarding the extreme intellectual property provisions of the Consultation Paper on Digital Copyright Issues.
These measures give far too much power to publishers, at the expense of indivdiuals' rights. The CPDCI provisions, which serve no one but corporate copyright interests. Please do not allow more incidents like the arrest of the Russian programmer Dmitry Sklyarov, who was simply trying to advance technology, freely, for all mankind.
These provisions would amend the Canadian Copyright Act to ban very important software 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 just to name a few.
As a Canadian Citizen and Programmer, I'm formally requesting that you remove these anti-freedom provisions from the CPDCI language. The DMCA's flaws should not be forced on Canadians too.
Sincerely,
Cory Syvenky
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