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Bill C32 is the new Copyright Modernization Act
In recognition of the potential that technology offers education, the Copyright Modernization Act greatly expands the ability of teachers and students to make use of new digital technologies and of copyrighted materials for the purpose of education and study. Key changes include:
 * What does Bill C32 Mean for Teachers and Students? **

The new bill enables the use of copyrighted materials for the purpose of education, provided the use is "fair" (i.e., it does not harm the market for a work).
 * Fair dealing for education **

The new bill allows teachers and students to use publicly available material that has been legitimately posted for free use on the Internet by copyright owners for the purposes of teaching and education. For example, a teacher could make handouts that include an illustration from a website that is freely accessible.
 * Publicly available material on the Internet **

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">The new bill allows schools to transmit lessons that include copyrighted sections over the Internet. For example, this would allow a student in Nunavut to access an online course offered by a University in Alberta.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Online learning **

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">The new bill enables schools to share copyrighted material with their students online (i.e., digital course packs), subject to fair compensation for the copyright holders.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Digital delivery of course materials **

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">The new bill permits libraries to email copyrighted material as part of an interlibrary loan, provided measures are taken to protect further distribution of the material.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Digital interlibrary loans **

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">The new bill makes existing education exceptions flexible for use in the future by removing references to specific technologies, such as flip charts and overhead projectors, and by removing the requirement to pay copyright owners to show films or recordings of broadcasts for educational purposes. The bill also creates a new exception allowing educational institutions to record a news program or a news commentary program for later viewing by the students
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Enhancing existing education exceptions **

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">The proposed bill builds on the existing Copyright Act to grant a larger range of uses for copyrighted material by teachers, students and schools, as their pursuits promote the broader public good. In light of this contribution, the Copyright Act already recognizes certain uses by educational institutions that are permitted, in many cases, without payment to the copyright holder.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">An important aspect of these changes is the addition of education as a purpose under Canada's fair dealing provisions. Fair dealing permits individuals and businesses to make certain uses of copyrighted material in ways that do not unduly threaten the legitimate interests of copyright owners, but which could have important economic, societal and cultural benefits. Extending this provision to education will reduce administrative and financial costs for users of copyrighted materials that enrich the educational environment.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">The Copyright Act must adapt to new and emerging technologies. These changes will enhance the traditional classroom experience and facilitate new models for education outside of the physical classroom. The new bill reinforces and complements the Government of Canada's significant investments in Internet infrastructure, education and skills development.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">The new bill will allow ripping of songs from a CD to place on your computer or portable music recorder such as an I-Pod
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Audio exceptions **

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Aligning to a similar clause in the US "Fair Use" provision allowing a similar clause in the Canadian "Fair Dealings"
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Parody/Satire exceptions **

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Allows consumers to record television programs on their home VCR, CD recorder, or PVR for their own pleasure without worry about copyright infringement.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Consumer exceptions **

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Notice to Notice rules as a compromise to holding ISP liable for their users violating copyright laws. Now if it is found that an ISP user is violating copyright rules with what they may be posting on an ISP site the Copyright holder may send notice to the ISP holder which in turn must forward this notice to their user. This has been shown to provide up to 70% success at the users permanently removing the copyrighted material. issues.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Internet Service Providers(ISP) responsibilities when their users are compromising copyright laws. **

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Including the main exception of education they also added exceptions to mach-ups or re-mixing when not used for personal gain or impact to original copyright holders commercial ventures. This includes U-tube posted material.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Dealing exceptions **

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">The original $20, 000 penalties for each and every infringement originally was put in place for commercial ventures and not directed at consumer copyright infringements. Clearly the original intent would not have been to sue the average consumer for $20,000 per song that was downloaded from the internet.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Clarified the differences between commercial and consumer penalties **

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">One of the key clauses put in place to protect copyrighted material, predominant in the present age, is to place an overarching trump clause preventing all exceptions identified above if a digital lock is in placed on the copyrighted material originally. It also identifies that tampering or removing this digital lock for whatever purpose is also considered a violation of the copyright laws. This clause alone seems to be providing the most controversy over the Bill due to the fact that it eliminates all previous exemptions identified above whether legal or not.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Overarching Clauses **

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Find our more about Bill C32 and other Balanced Copyright information

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">With the age of the digital environment and the ease at which digital information can be copied and digitally transmitted, it was necessary for the copyright holder to attempt to limit the ease of which it is to copy their material by use of digital locks and the use of contract law. Copyright holders lobbied the Canadian Government to incorporate amendments to the Canadian Copyright law to limit the tampering of these digital locks by incorporating tampering as copyright infringement. There is both a need for this form of copyright protection to allow creators to benefit and profit from their original creations and allow the ability for access to this information within the existing free dealing exceptions available under the present Canadian copyright laws. Learn more by reading the Discussion Paper on Digital Copyright by the Copyright Forum.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Digital Copyright **