Professor uses Youtube, Facebook in copyright fight

Computerworld: Professor uses YouTube, Facebook in copyright fight.

In an effort to combat the Canadian government's impending copyright reform bill -- legislation which some say could affect privacy and property rights for Canadian consumers and businesses -- one industry activist is taking his fight to the digital streets.

Michael Geist, research chair of Internet and e-commerce law at the University of Ottawa, said the Conservative's copyright reform bill is likely to include anti-circumvention provisions for technical provision measures (TPMs), a tool used to restrict the use of a digital work, making it illegal to modify, improve, back-up or make products that interact with any devices fitted with a TPM. He compared the impending legislation, rumored to be unveiled in the next few weeks, to the Canadian government's version of the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). ...