June 18, 2003
A proposed Canadian copyight term extension for unpublished works of deceased authors, which earlier this week appeared to headed for elimination by a Canadian parliamentary committee, surprisingly made it through committee yesterday.
Despite an all-party agreement to drop the clauses, members of parliament from the ruling Liberal party took advantage of the absence of opposition party parliamentarians to pass the bill with the provisions intact. The bill now heads to the House of Commons for its final reading when the House reconvenes in the fall.
(Both this story and yesterdays were from BNA's Internet Law News (ILN)