Canada More Or Less Admits Its Copyright Reform Plan Is Driven By US, Following DMCA Exemption Rulings
from the why-wait-until-now? dept
While I'm glad that Canadian politicians may be reconsidering their awful digital locks provision, it seems odd that it would take a US rulemaking for them to do so. After all, one of the key talking points by Canadian politicians is that this is a "made in Canada" approach to copyright, rather than being driven by the US. So, why would a US rulemaking matter? While it's good that this rulemaking is in a good direction, the fact that Canada didn't think to include similar exemptions in its copyright law until this rulemaking is more or less a confession that the copyright law was based on US rules and US interests, rather than Canadian interests.