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Originally Posted by Barcey
For now but probably not for long.
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Wow. Your link is quite an eye-opener for me.
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-- Criminal penalties for small-time unauthorized downloading. Canadian law currently allows copyright holders to sue non-commercial downloaders for up to $5,000, but there are no criminal penalties under current law.
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If true, US presidential candidates are going to line up against it, and the Trans-Pacific Partnership is going to be voted down in the US Congress. Don't these people remember how SOPA flamed out?
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-- Tougher rules for “fair use.” Canadian law allows the copying of portions of copyrighted materials, for instance for educational purposes or for citing in news articles, but a proposed “three-step test” for fair use in the TPP could make it more difficult to use copyrighted materials this way.
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Again, if true, I think it's another nail in the grave as far as the US Congressional approval is concerned.
However, the anti-publisher, anti-
New York Times crowd on Mobileread may love this provision. We'll see.
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The copyright change matches what has been reportedly a demand of U.S. negotiators in talks over the Trans-Pacific Partnership . . .
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If true, US negotiators have no clue about how the balance of power between Disney and the netizens has shifted over the last five years or so, in favor of the latter.