Yule Heibel on 2008-01-08
Oh Jesus H. Christ -- pay a fee to do this? g-d that.
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08 Jan 08
Yule HeibelOh, fuck Canada, fuck the CBC, eh?:
"Mr. Geist also noted that in schools or libraries, the U.S. laws would prevent students from making copies of material they use for research purposes.
But he and some industry stakeholders have acknowledged that Canada should adopt some elements of the U.S. legislation that offer flexibility for the "fair use" of intellectual property. They say that under the existing laws in Canada, a person could be sued for producing a parody of a politician based on real images, sound or video, or even for recording a television program.
The restrictions recently prompted the popular on demand Internet video site, YouTube.com, to remove a parody of the former president of the CBC appearing at parliamentary hearings because of a complaint from the speaker of the House of Commons."
Boo-hoo, a speaker of the House of Commons commonly complained about a parody, and it had to be taken off YouTube? This takes the biscuit.
Canada, land of tutelage and lords, even if they are common as dirt.-
Jay Thomson, the assistant vice president of broadband policy for Telus, said the existing laws in Canada are also preventing his company from launching a new digital television recording service that would allow subscribers to tape their favourite shows for later viewing on a network server without having to use a VCR or Personal Video Recorder device.
"I'm certain that the vast majority of Canadians don't know that when they tape a program for later viewing using a PVR or even VCR that that is a copyright infringement in Canada, and they're potentially subject to a lawsuit for undertaking that activity," Thomson said. "It's not against copyright law in the U.S., it's not in Australia, it's not in Japan or the U.K., and it's been going on for decades here and shouldn't be a copyright infringement (here) either."
Mr. Thomson said Telus cannot launch this service until the government updates Canada's copyright laws.
"Instead of taping Boston Legal on their PVR that they paid $400 for and are trying to figure out how to use, they would be able to have a much more economical approach," he said. "The business case hasn't been worked out yet because the legal issues still have to be resolved but for example, maybe they'd pay a small monthly fee to rent space on the provider's server."
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But Mr. Thomson does not agree with adopting U.S. copyright laws which could force Internet Service Providers to take down websites or online material of their clients based on allegations of a copyright violation before it is heard in court.
"We don't think that that system should apply in Canada, because it gives too much power to rights holders," he said. "It turns them into judges and juries."
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Yule Heibel on 2008-01-08
- at least he's cognizant of that!
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