Canada veers away from U.S. approach in copyright reform

摘要

The federal government has confirmed plans to introduce legislation this spring that will prohibit tampering with copyright material on the Internet, but stopped short of a reform package that many IT industry experts worried would resemble the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Ajoint statement from Industry Canada and Canadian Heritage spelled out a series of amendments to the Canadian Copyright Act. The legislation will include an implementation of the 1996 World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Treaties, changes to the way material can be accessed via the Internet for educational purposes, and the role Internet service providers would play in enforcing copyright law.