[Foundation-l] Canadian copyrights

[Ray Saintonge]

The Canadian government has asked for comments on copyright revision at 
http://copyright.econsultation.ca/

It will accept comments until September 13.  Amazingly this mostly 
coincides with the time when most people interested in liberalized 
copyright laws are away touring Europe or planting trees.  When they 
regain access to their electronic lifelines it may be too late to comment.

Promoters of these changes would really like Canada to fall in line with 
the WIPO treaty that it signed a decade ago.  They might have passed 
their changes easily if they had been quick about it, but events over 
the last 10 years have made this much more controversial then they would 
have hoped.

There do not appear to be any rules that would prohibit comments by 
non-Canadians.

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