Copyright Act changes to be revealed

Wed Jun 2, 2010

CBC News

Industry Minister Tony Clement will be in Montreal Wednesday afternoon to introduce a bill to upgrade the Copyright Act.

Sources have said it will make it a crime to pick a "digital lock" attached to a piece of music, film, electronic game or other product.

For example, overriding the copyright code on a song to burn it to a CD would violate the act.

Moving digital material from a CD to an iPod, for example, or burning from a PVR to a DVD, will be legal for personal use as long as no digital lock is picked.

Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2010/06/02/con-copyright-advance.html#ixzz0piBKKIg0
 

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