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COPYRIGHT REFORM PROCESS
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Submission from John Mosko received on September 14, 2001 via e-mail
Subject: Copyright Reform
To Whom it May Concern:I am writing to voice my strong opposition to the intellectual property provisions contained within the Consultation Paper on Digital Copyright Issues. These measures mirror the Digital Millennium Copyright Act in use throughout the US and trample roughshod over individual rights for the benefit of power-hungry publishers.
If enacted, I fear the provisions would have the same chilling effect on speech that has been seen in the US due to DMCA. Professors and researchers have been threatened by various industry entities under the DMCA and further, the US has gone so far as to arrest a visiting Russian citizen who was in the states to make a presentation on encryption and e-book security. The provisions contained in the paper would violate the Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantee of freedom of speech, and similar guarantees in the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights, by banning all software and tools to bypass copy protection even when used for lawful activities such as: reverse engineering, computer security analysis, fair dealing, and more. I ask that you remove the overly broad intellectual property provisions from the CPCDI and do all in your power to make sure no policy as invasive as the DMCA is ever implemented in Canada.
John Mosko
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