A Canadian politician who [URL=http://www.gamepolitics.com/2010/03/18/canadian-pol-proposes-%E2%80%9Cipod%E2%80%9D-tax]proposed a tax[/URL] on digital media devices, in addition to amending the country’s Copyright Act, has written [URL=http://www.thestar.com/opinion/article/787278--copyright-levy-would-protect-artists-in-a-world-of-downloads]a blistering op-ed for The Star[/URL].

New Democratic Party (NDP) MP Charlie Angus previously admitted that the change he proposed to the Copyright Act—which would protect the “reasonable” use of copyrighted materials for “innovation, research and study”—was designed to stimulate conversation, and he begins his article by asking, “Is it possible in Canada to have a grown up conversation about copyright?”
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