Pauline Wong is the Assistant Director of IP Osgoode.
In light of the introduction on September 29, 2011, of , the current copyright reform bill in Canada, we would like to highlight again commentary by , Associate Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School and Member of IP Osgoode, on issues raised by Bill C-32. Bill C-11 is a re-introduction of Bill C-32.
was published on the IPilogue. In the blog post, Professor Craig considered the threats posed by technical protection measures and anti-circumvention laws to fair dealing and other lawful uses of protected works. She adopted, as a normative starting point, the principle of “prescriptive parallelism” according to which the traditional copyright balance of rights and exceptions should be preserved in the digital environment.
Professor Craig also contributed a chapter in (Irwin Law: Toronto, 2010), a compilation edited by Professor Michael Geist of the University of Ottawa. Professor Craig's Chapter Seven - Locking Out Lawful Users: Fair Dealing and Anti-Circumvention in Bill C-32 can be read on or on the . The chapter examines the potential impact of the proposed fair dealing and anti-circumvention provisions in Bill C-32, which now also apply to Bill C-11.