ARCHIVÉE — Ken Zakreski (En anglais seulement)

PROCESSUS DE RÉFORME DU DROIT D'AUTEUR

SUGGESTIONS REÇUES RELATIVEMENT AUX DOCUMENTS DE CONSULTATION

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Suggestion de Ken Zakreski reçue le 14 septembre 2001 par courriel

Objet : Canadian copyright reform

To: Industry Canada, Copyright Reform

I am writing to express my concern with provisions of the Consultation Paper on Digital Copyright Issues (CPCDI). The actions you propose will negatively impact on the rights of individuals to obtain information and opinion about events in our world. I request that you forward to me, at this email address, stakerholders information on the developments of this new regime.

Your new measures seem based on the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). The DMCA itself is already under legal challenge in the US, and is skewed in favour of unfair trade. The CPDCI provisions are just as overbroad as those of the DMCA.

These provisions would amend the Canadian Copyright Act to ban, with few or no exceptions, software and other tools that allow copy prevention technologies to be bypassed. This would violate the Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantee of freedom of speech, and similar guarantees in the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights, since such tools are necessary to exercise lawful uses, including fair dealing, reverse engineering, computer security research and many others.

I urge you to increase access to information and opinion, be it written, spoken or communicated artistically. The flawed DMCA should not be used as a starting point for Canadian regimes.

Sincerely,

Ken Zakreski B.A. (Business)
(Adresse enlevée)