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Entire Copyright Act to be scrapped
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| The National government will freeze any further changes to the Copyright Act
| with an eye to throwing the whole thing out and rewriting it from scratch.
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| Over the last two months the National government has progressively scrapped
| Labour’s ‘band-aid’ adjustments to the Copyright Act 1994.
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http://www.nbr.co.nz/article/entire-copyright-act-be-scrapped-101820
US Trade Rep: Blame Canada For Piracy!
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| Canada already has quite stringent copyright laws, and it has even passed
| stricter copyright laws over the past few years at the urging of the
| entertainment industry. It's difficult to see this new announcement as
| anything other than a condemnation of the US Trade Rep's process for putting
| together such a list.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090430/1418374709.shtml
Recent:
Canada's Private ACTA Talking Points
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| While the Canadian government has dutifully followed the U.S. line on ACTA
| with bland releases following each of the four 2008 negotiation sessions,
| newly obtained documents under the Access to Information Act reveal that the
| Canadian delegation may be speaking out on some of the public concerns that
| have been raised around transparency and the exclusion of many countries from
| the negotiation process [download here]. The documents include several
| noteworthy revelations:
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| First, the documents confirm that the leaked ACTA document from last year was
| indeed the ACTA Discussion Paper distributed among governments. At the time,
| there was some question as to whether this was an industry wish-list or a
| government document. The Canadian documents confirm that this was a
| government document, a suggested intervention notes that "we would like to
| raise the issue of communications. As you all know by now, the ACTA
| Discussion Paper has been leaked . . . "
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http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/3653/125/
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