Government Manager, Pilot Network Services Greg Meckbach @itworldca Published: September 2nd, 2008 As politicians and pundits speculate the federal government is about to call an election, the prognosis of the copyright legislation introduced last June appears poor.If the Governor General dissolves Parliament, Bill C-61, the Act to Amend the Copyright Act, will die on the order paper, rather than go to committee for further study and second reading.Although the New Democratic Party opposes the bill, crafted by Industry Minister Jim Prentice, the NDP’s digital rights critic says Canada’s Copyright Act still needs to be changed. “We can’t just put off the issue of copyright,” said Charlie Angus, who represents the Ontario riding of Timmins-James Bay. “We actually need to get some legislation in place. I think Bill C-61 was the wrong legislation but certainly when Parliament gets back, we’ve got to get the job done.”More in ComputerWorld CanadaHow Bill C-61 can discourage codersAt press time, published reports quoted un-named Conservative Party sources as saying Prime Minister Stephen Harper is about to ask the Governor General Micha Related Download Sponsor: BlackBerry The Senior Leader’s Guidebook to Emergency Management and Business Continuity Register Now Government copyright infringement, open-source, policy Obama wants to keep tech jobs in the U.S. Cisco's network management challenges Related Content Executive talent risks in the Government of Canada Open source community sees risk and reward in IBM purchase of Red Hat Telus embraces GitHub’s open source community to create digital platform Microsoft buys GitHub for $7.5 billion
