Jesse Kline wrote:
>On Sat, 2002-09-07 at 17:27, Richard Jenniss wrote:
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>>Does the DMCA have jurisdiction in Canada?
>>
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>No, that's an American law.
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>>Are there any laws preventing reverse engineering?
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>Sorry, I'm not a lawyer :-)
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>>It isn't so worse than this:
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>><snip>
>>XVID is a leading open source MPEG-4 video codec, covered by the GNU General Public
>License (GNU GPL). At the beginning of July 2002, XVID learned that their codec was
>entirely stolen by Sigma Designs (the manufacturer of DXR3/H+ hardware MPEG2 decoder
>cards), and is distributed with the name REALmagic MPEG-4 Video Codec, under Sigma
>Designs' own license (not GPL).
>></snip> @ http://www.MPlayerHQ.hu/homepage/
>>
>
>
We may not have laws like this on the books yet, but under NAFTA, Canada
has a responsibility to bring trade and copyright laws in line with the
yanks. I believe these laws are under discussion in canada, but
changing them is not high priority so they are not being pushed yet.
