Re: [Cdn-DMCA] A new front to fight on - the FTAA

From: "Chris Brand" <Chris_Brand _-at-_ spectrumsignal.com>
To: <canada-dmca-opponents (at) flora.ca>
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 10:39:24 -0800

>  I'm not even assuming I would be moving to a Western country.
Most of the countries that have already passed DMCa-like laws and ratified the WIPO treaty are in Africa. China's starting to look like the last bastion of freedom, from this perspective, at least :-)

>  This type of a directive, if implemented in Canada (and possibly within
>the copyright and patents acts directly), would immediately deal with many
>of the critical problems of protection for technological measures and
>other related problems.  It would also close the potential "debate" on the
>DeCSS-like technology given that the creation and use of this type of
>software would be explicitly protected.

>  It would also honour a respect for competition policy and free market
>economics, something that the current direction of copyright seems to
>directly attack.

I like it. This is definitely an idea that should be brought up at the consultation meetings. OF course, it didn't stop the UK from passing something like the DMCA before the USA had that, but the legal situation between the U and the UK is pretty strange.

Chris
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