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What are your thoughts on Canada's latest amendments to the Copyright Act? (self.askacanadian)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by Rentlar to c/askacanadian

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The federal government recently passed two bills into law, C-244 and C-294. These make it not a copyright violation to break or bypass a digital access control to software/hardware you ~~own~~ have legitimate access to, for the purposes of diagonstics/maintenance/repair, and interoperability respectively. Article from The Sarnia Observer

iFixit has applauded the move but says it still keeps bans on the sale and sharing of tools designed primarily for digital lock bypass.

What are your thoughts?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I see a problem with the term "that you own". Basically all software is not owned, just licensed.

[–] Rentlar 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Was paraphrasing a bit, the verbiage in C-294 is "a lawfully obtained computer program" so it can be just licensed to you. Not a lawyer so take from it what you will. Edited my post

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Thanks for the clarification. That really makes a difference.