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Prentice's Made in Canada Spin

By Michael Geist

Susan Delacourt of the Toronto Star reports that people have spotted signs around the Industry Canada headquarters sporting the slogan "Made in Canada Copyright Reform." The report suggests that Industry Minister Jim Prentice has dropped the "Putting Consumers First" line that he used at the spectrum auction announcement (consumers are unlikely to be first in the forthcoming bill) and will instead try to sell the Canadian DMCA as a distinctly Canadian approach.  While it is true that the ISP liability provisions will be a Canadian solution, Prentice should be honest about the core anti-circumvention rules that are likely to mirror the DMCA and run counter to the concerns of business, education, and consumer groups.  Those rules are quite clearly "Born in the USA."

Full post as published by Michael Geist on June 10, 2008 (boomark / email).