The new Canadian Copyright Reforms Plan have been released. It has complied with some international treaties, and in doing so ammended this article:
It would not be legal to circumvent, without authorization, a TPM applied to a sound recording, notwithstanding the exception for private copying.
TPM being DRM. In other words, it would be illegal for you to use the music files you purchased from iTunes or whatever to make a CD out of it. Because that would involve “circumventing” copyright protection, even though you payed for the music files, and now own them.
I hate any law that says you cannot do with your property as you wish. I bought it, I own it, so why is it illegal to use it in anyway I see fit?
In conformity with the WPPT, performers would be provided with moral rights in their fixed and live performances, consistent with the moral rights already provided to authors in relation to their works.
I really don’t like the concept of “Moral Rights”. In essence it means that if the people who own the music (which isn’t the actual artist in 99% of the cases) can sue you if you use the music in a way that they don’t see fit. For example, even if I payed $5,000 to liscence an Operatic song for a movie, the company owning the music could still sue me if they didn’t like the movie.
Copyright would also be infringed by persons who … facilitate circumvention…
In other words, you can be sued if you make and distribute a tool that lets you modify your property (even legitimately).
ISPs would be exempt from copyright liability in relation to their activities as intermediaries, namely, their activities as mere conduits for information, their caching activities, their hosting activities, and their information location activities.
The only thing this act does right: internet providers are no longer liable for the acts of their users.