Prentice has said on several occasions that Canada’s Copyright Act must be amended in order to bring the country into compliance with the World Intellectual Property Organization treaty it signed in 1996.
The minister was forced to retreat on introducing the bill in December after being hit with major public opposition. More than 20,000 people joined a protest group started on social networking site Facebook by University of Ottawa internet and e-commerce professor Michael Geist, an outspoken critic of the bill.
The opposition to the legislation has only grown since then, with the Facebook group counting more than 40,000 members now...
Full article: http://statismwatch.ca/2008/06/12/government-ready-to-drop-copyright-bomb/
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