Canadians facing barrage of misleading copyright demand notices due to loophole in new law

The misuse of the Canadian system could have been avoided with more detailed regulations that featured explicit limits on the content of copyright notices.

Canada’s new copyright notification system—dubbed the “notice-and-notice” approach since it allows rights holders to send notices alleging infringement to Internet providers who are required to forward those notices to subscribers—took effect at the...

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