"Canadian Library Association Disappointed, Concerned with New Copyright Legislation"

The Canadian Library Association has put out a second press release about Bill C-61, the government's copyright legislation. This one is more detailed than their first.

“The much ballyhooed ‘giving the consumer more rights’ is smoke-and-mirrors,” Mr. Roberts says. “Prohibiting access to the tools that give users their access to legally acquired information is simply wrong.”

The proposed legislation gives rightsholders the power to override users’ statutory rights either by contract or by the application of digital locks. CLA believes overriding users’ rights is not in consumers’ best interests.

“Turning Canadians into criminals because they break a digital lock so they can legally use a music, video or document file is Catch-22,” says Mr. Roberts. “We shouldn’t make owning a hacksaw illegal; we should ensure theft is illegal.”

For a teenager, the criminal risk involved in shoplifting a CD would be safer rather than circumventing digital rights management (DRM) software on a CD they purchased to put on their iPod.

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I couldn't even continue curling in a recreational league.