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Will Canadian Copyright Revision Spring Forth Early?

By Howard Knopf, Esq.

This year, it sure looks like we are having an early spring.

And it may be that we will have an earlier than expected springtime copyright bill, as I am hearing on good authority.

Will it hopefully be truly ?recalibrated? to serve Canadian needs and show Canadian competence, sovereignty and leadership? Or will it be the ?Son of 61" - and follow in the footsteps of that very unpopular bill from 2008?

Will it be WIPO ready, and if so will Canada ratify the WIPO treaties? More crucially, will it be ACTA ready, whatever that may turn out to mean? If it is a balanced, reasonable and viable bill domestically, will that mean that Canada has drawn a line in the sand beyond which it will not go in the so-far-secret ACTA negotiations?

HK

Full post as published by Excess Copyright on March 12, 2010 (boomark / email).