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| This post is about a previous Session of Parliament. Any legislation here that did not receive Royal Assent has been terminated. |
C-374 – An Act to amend the Copyright Act (Crown copyright) – makes it so the federal government can’t hold the copyright over anything produced by it.
Specifically, C-374 makes it so no copyright exists at all for anything made at the direction of the government. Brian says that a lot of government research is never made public because copyright laws allow the research to just not be published. Removing the copyright on these means nobody has that option and everything is public domain.
C-374 will also remove any existing copyright on these works.
Progress
C-374 is outside the Order of Precedence.
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