The Copyright Act prohibits circumventing a technological protection measure — defined as to descramble, decrypt, “or to otherwise avoid, bypass, remove, deactivate or impair” the TPM. It defines a TPM as a technology that controls access to a work.
The government is asking the court to declare that Parks Canada wasn’t in the wrong to internally share articles Blacklock’s wrote about the department, and that such password-sharing isn’t circumventing a TPM. It said the results of the case “promise to be determinative of all outstanding Blacklock’s actions” against the government currently in the court.Article content
“Permitting copyright owners to effectively negate fair dealing by employing TPMs defeats the Act’s careful balance between owner and user rights,” CIPPIC argued.
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