New Canadian copyright legislation to be revealed

Those of you losing sleep over the sorry state of Canadian copyright law – fear no more – new copyright legislation will be put forward today. As previously reported, attempts by the record industry to sue people who distribute unlicensed music online in Canada have been hindered because the courts there have generally said current Canadian copyright law is so behind the times it is impossible to interpret it in such a way as to stop P2P-ers from sharing tunes. The industry there has been lobbying hard for new laws to fix that problem, and the bill to be revealed today is expected to do that – to a point. Remains to be seen if the legislation satisfies the content owners and, if it does, how big a backlash there is from those consumer rights groups who tend to object to any tightening of copyright rules.