[mythtv-users] Copyright Legislation in Canada

[Daniel Buijs]

Currently most aspects of MythTV are legal in Canada. I would like  
very much for it to stay legal. However, under the proposed C-61 the  
following aspects of MythTV would become illegal in Canada:

Keeping the original recording after transcoding.
Archiving recordings.
Keeping recordings after watching them more than once.
Watching DVDs (All DVDs have CSS on them. de-CSS would be considered  
circumvention technology)
Ripping DVDs to your hard drive
Depending on your remote control, programming your universal remote  
control.
For HD programming, recording any program with a "Broadcast Flag"

While it's true there is a private copying levy in Canada, this only  
allows the copying of music files.

Believe it or not, it's actually worse than DMCA. Under DMCA in the  
US you still have Fair Use provisions. If this bill is passed, you  
will have no Fair Dealing rights on digital media.

I don't know about you, but I really don't appreciate it when the  
government proposes legislation on something they clearly don't  
really understand and it turns me and millions of other Canadians  
into criminals.

On 9-Jul-08, at 2:09 AM, Charles philip Chan wrote:

> Alen Edwards <allen.edwards at oldpaloalto.com> writes:
>
>> In the US there is a law called fair use that allows you to make  
>> copies
>> of your material for your own use.
>
> True, in Canada and the UK it is called "fair dealing".
>
>> MythTV is just a new age VCR and the same laws apply.
>
> True, however the Sony Betamax decision only involves "free,
> over-the-air television for time-shifting" and nothing beyond:
>
> http://arstechnica.com/articles/culture/fair-use.ars
>
> The content providers are trying to reverse this also with heavy
> lobbying.
>
>> I don't think anything on myth is in any way illegal and, while I  
>> wish
>> you luck in fighting what seems like an unwise law for many  
>> reasons, I
>> think it best if we all realize that this is completely legal, that
>> nobody here is breaking any laws or violating any patents or anything
>> like that.
>
> Yes and no. It is conpletely legal in the US if you can get at the
> content without breaking any DVD copyright protection scheme or  
> else you
> are breaking the DMCA:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ 
> WIPO_Copyright_and_Performances_and_Phonograms_Treaties_Implementation 
> _Act
>
> Charles
>
>
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