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Suggestion de Michael T. Babcock reçue le 29 juillet 2001 14h05 par courriel

Objet : A brief summary request

As a technology consultant and business person, I am glad to see that Canada is making efforts to understand the place that Copyright holds in our modern and heavily interconnected society, as well as how to enforce and encourage proper use thereof. I would simply ask that we, as Canada, would decide how to best serve the needs of society as a whole with respect to the temporary Copyrighting of works. Remembering that Copyright is intended to be a temporary restriction to encourage the creation of works eventually made part of the public domain, let us not make the mistakes the United States of America have made with their Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

I hope and pray as a canadian that we will not give in to pressures imposed by business and artist unions, but realise that our society and the world at large are best served by temporarily enforced Copyrights which allow fair use and critique.

I specifically request that any adjustments to our Copyright Act be taken very slowly and with significant consultation from technology partners who understand the limits of digital media and encryption systems. It may be necessary to take into account, as other countries have not, that it may never again be possible to limit the redistribution and replication of digital media formats and that other, non-Copyright laws need to be created instead.

Copyright, I remind the reader, is a young set of laws in its current incarnations, and if, as a concept, it no longer has a place in its current format in our society, it may be necessary to replace it with something that fits better.

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Michael T. Babcock
CTO, FibreSpeed

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