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COPYRIGHT REFORM PROCESS
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Submission from received on September 10, 2001 via e-mail
Subject: COMMENTS: Consultation Paper on Digital Copyright Issues
Comments - Government of Canada Copyright Reformc/o Intellectual Property Policy Directorate
Industry Canada
235 Queen Street
5th Floor West
Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0H5 Canada
fax: (613) 941-8151
To Industry Canada, the Department of Canadian Heritage, the Intellectual Property Policy Directorate and other concerned agencies:
I write to express my support regarding the intellectual property provisions of the Consultation Paper on Digital Copyright Issues (CPCDI).
These measures, based on the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), protect the individual rights of the copyright holders and creative commuity.
The protection of copyright is a sensitive issue, as it mis-understood by the public at large, mostly those with no direct experience of the creative process. The CPDCI provisions serve those within the creative community - ultimately even the programmers that, in their igonorance, stand against those very same provisions which will ultimately protect their own future works when they do finally create something original.
I believe these provisions protect our Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantee of freedom of speech, and similar guarantees in the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and as technology advances, it should do so on a level playing field according to the legislation in place that governs intellectual property (Eg: play by the same rules with no exceptions), and should not take away from the progress we have diligently made over the years, in securing protection for our intellectual property.
I urge you to INCLUDE these controversial and pro-freedom provisions for the CPDCI documents. Despite the international attention to the DMCA, we should focus its strengths and not turn back the hands of time for real progress, to the benefit of all Canadians.
Sincerely,
Kathy Hahn
(address removed)
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