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June 25, 2012 08:05 pm

Canadian DOJ Warned About Unconstitutionality of Copyright Digital Lock Rules


An anonymous reader writes "The Canadian House of Commons may have passed the Canadian DMCA, butthe constitutionalconcerns with the copyright bill and its digital lock rules will likelylinger for years. Michael Geist has obtainedinternal government documents that indicate that the Department ofJustice issued a legal opinion warning about the potential forconstitutional violations. The DOJ legal opinion warned of the need tolink circumvention with copyright infringement and of the particulardanger of not providing the blind with an exception. The Canadian lawmisses the mark on both counts with no link to infringement and anexception that blind groups say is 'nullified' by strict conditions."

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