Canada to enter IIPA blacklist
The Entertainment Software Association (ESA) is convincing the U.S. government to add Canada to the list of countries that are lenient on copyright infringement laws and issues. ESA represents the game industry in the International Intellectual Property Alliance and works to protect respective copyrighted materials.
Canada is believed to possess inadequate protection for intellectual properties. Videotaping a movie in a Canadian theater is not illegal. Chip modifications that allow pirated software to play on a console are rampant across the country. ESA Canada has been in talks with the Canadian government to address these issues.
Stephen Harper, current Prime Minister, replaced the former Prime Minister who didn’t yield to the matter. But Prime Minister Harper is more open to the issue.
The current blacklist includes Russia and China and a slew of other countries who will face sanctions with the World Trade Organization. Canada is currently in the U.S.’s lower priority watch list, but the IIPA recommends that it be moved up the list. As they said to the U.S. government:
Canada’s long tenure on the Watch List has had no discernible effect on Canadian copyright policy. Consequently, IIPA believes that [the United States Trade Representative] should elevate Canada to the Priority Watch List as a concrete expression of U.S. disappointment that the Government of Canada has given insufficient priority to this crucial item of unfinished business. At a time when every other developed country and major U.S. trading partner has made significant progress toward modernizing copyright legislation to respond to the challenges of an ever changing technological universe, Canada’s failure to do so is particularly striking, and should elicit a commensurate reaction from the U.S. government.
Via IGN
The Entertainment Software Association (ESA) is convincing the U.S. government to add Canada to the list of countries that are lenient on copyright infringement laws and issues. ESA represents the game industry in the International Intellectual Property Alliance and works to protect respective copyrighted materials.
Canada is believed to possess inadequate protection for intellectual properties. Videotaping a movie in a Canadian theater is not illegal. Chip modifications that allow pirated software to play on a console are rampant across the country. ESA Canada has been in talks with the Canadian government to address these issues.
Stephen Harper, current Prime Minister, replaced the former Prime Minister who didn’t yield to the matter. But Prime Minister Harper is more open to the issue.
The current blacklist includes Russia and China and a slew of other countries who will face sanctions with the World Trade Organization. Canada is currently in the U.S.’s lower priority watch list, but the IIPA recommends that it be moved up the list. As they said to the U.S. government:
Canada’s long tenure on the Watch List has had no discernible effect on Canadian copyright policy. Consequently, IIPA believes that [the United States Trade Representative] should elevate Canada to the Priority Watch List as a concrete expression of U.S. disappointment that the Government of Canada has given insufficient priority to this crucial item of unfinished business. At a time when every other developed country and major U.S. trading partner has made significant progress toward modernizing copyright legislation to respond to the challenges of an ever changing technological universe, Canada’s failure to do so is particularly striking, and should elicit a commensurate reaction from the U.S. government.
Via IGN
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