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TheStar.com | sciencetech | How the U.S. got its Canadian copyright bill

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copyright Canada digital rights on 2008-06-16
- Instead, the bill dubbed by critics as the Canadian Digital Millennium Copyright Act (after the U.S. version of the law) is the result of an intense public and private campaign waged by the U.S. government to pressure Canada into following its much-criticized digital copyright model.
- he U.S. Trade Representatives Office (USTR) made Canada a fixture on its Special 301 Watch list, an annual compilation of countries the U.S. believes have sub-standard intellectual property laws. The full list contains nearly 50 countries accounting for 4.4 billion people or approximately 70 per cent of the world's population.
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- - USTR, which, according to documents obtained under the Access to Information Act, made veiled threats about "thickening the border" between Canada and the U.S. if Canada refused to put copyright reform on the legislative agenda.
Canada's DMCA: public service announcement - Boing Boing

great little video with Cory Doctorow - use to start discussion of finer points of new C-61 - check out the opensourcecinama site andother link

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Canada copyright C-61 DMCA on 2008-06-14 and saved by 2 people

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