I really don't think government should get involved with copyright things. I'm not a libertarian or anything, they just seem really inept at this stuff.
Disclosure: I had a temp job that lasted a couple of months at the Canadian Intellectual Property Office, back in the days when digitization was just beginning to be a thing back in the mid-1990's. After researchers were done with looking at the patent files they'd asked to look at, they'd have me put them on a cart and take them back to the storage racks they'd come from. Tonnes of actual paper back then, stored in several rented office and storefront spaces scattered throughout the shopping-mall floors of Place du Portage in downtown Gatineau.
I think you already understand that we need something to keep track of who has legal control over which trademarks, copyrights, patents - "intellectual property", all of that stuff - because people are trying to earn honest livings off of creating and inventing. You and I both (co-)own IP stuff. We also need to have limits on how long we can keep trying to do so with it, and what we can do to protect it. Some of the stuff we've seen IP owners do with stuff and to other people about that stuff...and I don't trust private companies to self-regulate anymore than you do.
IP being a purely statutory concept, government is by definition involved in it.
There is no such thing as copyright at common law; both the nature of the rights and their extent in time have changed many times. (Originally copyright, created under the Tudors, was held by the publishers - stationers - and was perpetual.)
Many of the changes in the bill are generally ill-advised, but it is an attempt to respond to genuine problems. One of the big problems is that of scalability: the internet allows micro-activities in domains that used to be possible only if you owned a printing press, but it has not been accompanied by a model of micropayments which would correspond to the requirements we have always put on actual publishers (modulo "fair use" - note that one requirement of fair use us not just that a citation be small but that it be as all part of the text containing it).
And since more of us humans are actually becoming "publishers" of one sort or another in the wake of the Web's creation...it's getting more complicated.
And we may be seeing other complications from passing such bills, pace Prof. Geist again:
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Date: 2022-11-30 10:04 pm (UTC)And sometimes they succeed.
"Why Is Booz Allen Renting Us Back Our Own National Parks?"
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Date: 2022-12-01 01:46 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-12-01 02:08 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-12-01 02:15 am (UTC)I think you already understand that we need something to keep track of who has legal control over which trademarks, copyrights, patents - "intellectual property", all of that stuff - because people are trying to earn honest livings off of creating and inventing. You and I both (co-)own IP stuff. We also need to have limits on how long we can keep trying to do so with it, and what we can do to protect it. Some of the stuff we've seen IP owners do with stuff and to other people about that stuff...and I don't trust private companies to self-regulate anymore than you do.
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Date: 2022-12-01 11:24 am (UTC)There is no such thing as copyright at common law; both the nature of the rights and their extent in time have changed many times. (Originally copyright, created under the Tudors, was held by the publishers - stationers - and was perpetual.)
Many of the changes in the bill are generally ill-advised, but it is an attempt to respond to genuine problems. One of the big problems is that of scalability: the internet allows micro-activities in domains that used to be possible only if you owned a printing press, but it has not been accompanied by a model of micropayments which would correspond to the requirements we have always put on actual publishers (modulo "fair use" - note that one requirement of fair use us not just that a citation be small but that it be as all part of the text containing it).
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Date: 2022-12-01 02:53 pm (UTC)And we may be seeing other complications from passing such bills, pace Prof. Geist again:
https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2022/12/a-tale-of-two-readouts-u-s-escalates-trade-concerns-with-canadian-digital-policy-as-canada-seeks-to-downplay-the-issue/