From Michael Geist comes word that Conservatives may be guilty of copyright infringement. This would be especially ironic since they are the authors of Bill C-61 (a.k.a. the Canadian DMCA) which would severely tighten Copyright law (instantly turning the majority of Canadians into criminals.) First it was the Dionbook page (via Google Cache) and puffins causing them problems and now there would appear to be problems with notaleader.ca as well.
From McLeans:
Yet, on your create-your-own-ad flash thingy, there are all sorts of video snippets from various networks - CTV, CBC, TVO and possibly others - but I can’t find anywhere that it says that material is being used with permission.
In fact, there’s nothing to indicate where the footage came from at all - which is required if you were planning to use the ‘fair dealing’ exemption, although it’s hard to see how this qualifies as “criticism or review.”
No official word yet from CBC or CTV but TVO has noticed.
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