Re: [Cdn-DMCA] Another Linux victory at Canadian International Trade Tribunal

From: aland _-at-_ striker.ottawa.on.ca
To: No DMCA in Canada <canada-dmca-opponents (at) flora.org>
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 10:39:58 -0400

Russell McOrmond <russell@flora.ca> wrote:
>   Essentially, various laws sometimes come in conflict with each other.  
> What I want to strongly suggest is that Copyright never be allowed to
> 'trump' laws such as the Competition Act, Access to Information Act,
> government procurement standards (Chapter 10 NAFTA, Chapter 5 AIT), or
> other such similar laws.

  How about the Copyright Act conflicting with itself?

  Under any proposed DMCA-style law, the extension of additional
rights to copyright holders prevents *users* of that copyrighted
material from performing acts which are expressly permitted under the
law.

  e.g. quoting for "fair use".

  See my draft response for further rants:

http://www.striker.ottawa.on.ca/~aland/digital_copyright.txt

  Alan DeKok.
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