Dan Tapscot has a great post on his wikinomics blog about the new copyright legislation in Canada. His main complaint is that rather than come up with something sensible for the modern age, they have simply adopted the failed US model of suing fans. Please read the whole post, but here is a great quote from the blog:
“[The new legislation is] all locks and lawsuits,” says Safwan Javed, a member of the Canadian Music Creators Coalition (www.musiccreators.ca) and drummer for Wide Mouth Mason. “Rather than building a made-in-Canada proposal to help musicians get paid, the government has chosen to import American-style legislation that says the solution to the music industry’s problems is suing our fans. Suing fans won’t make it 1992 again. It’s a new world for the music business and this is an old approach.”
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