If digital rights issues and copyright laws are your thing, you may want to check this out.
Save Canada's Internet from WIPO
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Canada is strongly considering ratifying the 1996 WIPO "Internet Treaties." These are the treaties that caused the USA to implement the loathsome Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), and they've wrought untold damage around the world. What will this mean for Canada? Well for starters, the Globe and Mail notes that a notice-and-takedown regime is inevitable:
In what is bound to be a controversial element, the committee recommended that Internet service providers (ISPs) must be held liable for copyrighted material that goes through their systems. To be exempt from that liability, the ISPs must show they are acting as true "intermediaries," without actual or constructive knowledge of the content.
ISPs should be required to comply with a "notice and takedown" system against subscribers who violate copyright laws. |
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There is a
true petition (print off a hard copy, have all your informed friends sign it and send it in) available if this gets your goat.
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