Canada plans warnings on copyright offenders

Canada plans warnings on copyright offenders

The Canadian government has made a new attempt to reform the national copyright law and the draft Copyright Modernization Act (C-11) introduced into Parliament. It provides, among other things, that Internet providers must send to the efforts of rights holders when users suspected of copyright infringement warnings. The access provider would be required to disclose data on their existing customers with judicial approval of representatives of the entertainment industry and to facilitate a prosecution. Other sanctions, such as Internet blocking, the draft does not.

The initiative also targets the government wants to implement the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), which control systems for digital rights management (DRM) should be protected. For critics such as the Canadian law professor Michael Geist shoots the design, building on earlier, in the parliamentary process has not progressed advances, yet far beyond the target. Thus the legal protection of copy blocks would be placed on previously securitized exceptions to the claim of exclusive exploitation rights holders such as private copying. To allow spirit called a paragraph, the teachers and students, excerpts of works set in an intranet for training purposes, as a "book burning" clause, and finally, the materials should be deleted within 30 days after the end of the lesson again.

Responsible for the preservation of cultural heritage minister James Moore said against a balanced design. According to the Conservatives for the first time should be allowed in the form of user-generated remixes, non-commercial content. In addition, be provided to lower the penalties for copyright violations in the private, non-institutional range of 20,000 to a maximum of 5,000 Canadian dollars. The opposition Liberals have complained that the Wikileaks dispatches have shown, where the wind is blowing in the proposed amendment. They had been mapped out by the U.S. film and music industry and not in the best interests of Canadian citizens.