The Canadian recording industry calls for adoption of Heritage Committee copyright re

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(Toronto) - Canada’s recording industry is praising a House of Commons committee report that calls for an immediate overhaul of Canada’s copyright law. Today in Ottawa, the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage tabled in the House of Commons its Interim Report on Copyright Reform. The report gave clear direction to the government on a number of previously unresolved issues. Most importantly, the Committee recommended that legislation to update the Copyright Act be introduced in Parliament by November 2004.

"We commend Committee Chair Sam Bulte and the other Heritage Committee members on making decisions in a few weeks that the departments of Canadian Heritage and Industry Canada couldn’t make in several years," remarked Brian Robertson, President, Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA).

"We are calling on the Minister of Canadian Heritage to ensure immediate adoption of the Committee’s recommendations," said Mr. Robertson.

"The Prime Minister told us at last month’s Juno Awards in Edmonton that he was not going to let the music industry be jeopardized, and he pointed to the Committee’s work," continued Mr. Robertson. "The Minister of Canadian Heritage also stated her intention to make changes to the Copyright Act a priority. Now is clearly the time for the government to get on with modernizing the law – particularly in light of recent news that Canada has now been embarrassingly placed on a Special 301 Watch List by the US government for its lack of action on copyright reform including ratification of the WIPO treaties," he concluded.

The WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization) treaties will make it easier for traditional copyrighted materials like music, literature, art, audiovisual materials and software to be accessed legally on the Internet. Forty-four other countries have introduced such laws. In 1997, Canada agreed to ratify the treaties by changing its Copyright Act.

[mountain_rage]

Why do people keep on voting the liberals into parliment their useless, Seriously i havn't seen anything good from the liberals since they have been in parliement its so stupid. I can't wait for the reelection so then we can get those guys out of office. All they have done is make the gap between poverty and rich bigger and the public health dead. Its time for a change.

[Jelsoft]

An election is coming, time to kick the Liberals out of office!

[Siskabush]

If mister martin wants to stick up for big business, then he wont be getting my vote!
We need to create a organization to blow this legislation outta the water.

Filesharing = Diversity
Diversity = Canada's Heritage
Heritage minister = Anti-Diversity

Maybe ill start a website...

[Burd]

I get the feeling that the word "liberal" means something entirely different in Canada than it does in the U.S.

[cheapprick]

Liberal means closer to the actual meaning in Canada maybe.

Facts are that the Conservative Party would do the exact same shite. You want to vote for people that don't feel the same you have to go NDP.

BTW, when the heritage minister first announced this a few weeks ago, I sent her a friendly letter. What's stopping any of you? No gestapo in this country yet. contact page