Globe and Mail: Copyright bill: All ours, or a DMCA copy?

Globe and MailCopyright bill: All ours, or a DMCA copy?
Mathew Ingram

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Six months after it was first scheduled to hit the federal legislature, the Harper government’s proposed copyright legislation was finally tabled in the House this morning, giving critics a first look at the law that they have been rallying against for the better part of two years. Although Industry Minister Jim Prentice is trying to rally support for the bill by calling it a “made-in-Canada” solution, prominent opponents such as law professor Michael Geist have made it clear they believe most of the new law’s features have been dictated by outside interests — including the global record industry, U.S. movie studios and other foreign content industries — and have called it “a carbon copy of the DMCA,” referring to the American legislation, known as the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.