Canadian DOJ Warned About Unconstitutionality of Copyright Digital Lock Rules 64
An anonymous reader writes "The Canadian House of Commons may have passed the Canadian DMCA, but
the constitutional
concerns with the copyright bill and its digital lock rules will likely
linger for years. Michael Geist has obtained
internal government documents that indicate that the Department of
Justice issued a legal opinion warning about the potential for
constitutional violations. The DOJ legal opinion warned of the need to
link circumvention with copyright infringement and of the particular
danger of not providing the blind with an exception. The Canadian law
misses the mark on both counts with no link to infringement and an
exception that blind groups say is 'nullified' by strict conditions."
Re:Dear Canada: (Score:3, Funny)
We the Sheeple of Canada (Baaah),
Are much too polite to complain about our coming incarceration for doing what we do everyday, today.
Only once our hockey and favourite coffee are illegal will we rise from our couches and build pitch forks and torches, only to wonder what to do with them.
Until then, there's a Kardashian spectacle on TV...
(Baaahhh!)
Canadian DMCA? (Score:4, Funny)
Would that be the DMC, eh?