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COPYRIGHT REFORM PROCESS
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Submission from received on September 10, 2001 via e-mail
Subject: Canadian copyright reform
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 Consultation Paper on Digital Copyright Issues (CPCDI).
These measures, based on the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), give far too much power to publishers, at the expense of indivdiuals' rights. The DMCA itself is already under legal challenge in the US, has gravely chilled scientists' and computer security researchers' freedom of expression around the world for fear of being prosecuted in the US. The CPDCI provisions, which serve no one but corporate interests, are just as overbroad as those of the DMCA.
The DMCA is already ridiculed internationally. Its flaws should not be imported and forced on Canadians. Intellectual property should be ownable BUT only by its creator. Selling the rights to intellectual property is tantamount to holding the world to ransom. Once distributed thought is intangible. Do we really want someone to sell us the air that we breathe ?
Sincerely,
Alan Millar
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