A copyright reform bill has just been introduced in Canada.

Law Professor Michael Geist describes it unhappily, but he starts from the academician's premise that the field is a war between the copyright industries and "individual Canadians":

[Th]e recording industry is the big winner with an enormous basket of new rights and individual Canadians are the big losers as the bill does little to address their interests.

I would have thought that the interest of Canadians was in getting lots of music, easily and at reasonable cost, and that -- funny how markets work -- this is also the interest of the music industry. The academy seems to think that Canadians' true interest is in the idea that music would be free, if only anyone had the incentives to produce any.

Actually, it looks like the bill, while it does many good things, does not go far enough in protecting DRM.

Link from Declan McCullagh's PoliTech newsletter.