An Act to Amend the Copyright Act (diagnosis, maintenance or repair)

This bill is from the 43rd Parliament, 2nd session, which ended in August 2021.

Sponsor

Bryan May  Liberal

Introduced as a private member’s bill. (These don’t often become law.)

Status

In committee (House), as of June 2, 2021
(This bill did not become law.)

Summary

This is from the published bill.

This enactment amends the Copyright Act in order to allow the circumvention of a technological protection measure in a computer program if the circumvention is solely for the purpose of diagnosis, maintenance or repair of a product in which the program is embedded. It also allows the manufacture, importation, distribution, sale, renting and provision of technologies, devices or components used for diagnosis, maintenance or repair of such products.

Similar bills

C-244 (current session) Law An Act to amend the Copyright Act (diagnosis, maintenance and repair)

Elsewhere

All sorts of information on this bill is available at LEGISinfo, an excellent resource from the Library of Parliament. You can also read the full text of the bill.

Bill numbers are reused for different bills each new session. Perhaps you were looking for one of these other C-272s:

C-272 (2022) Employing Persons with Disabilities Act
C-272 (2016) An Act to amend the Statistics Act (fire and emergency response statistics)
C-272 (2013) An Act to amend the Employment Insurance Act and the Canada Labour Code (compassionate care benefits)
C-272 (2011) An Act to amend the Employment Insurance Act and the Canada Labour Code (compassionate care benefits)
C-272 (2010) Mathieu Da Costa Day Act
C-272 (2009) Mathieu Da Costa Day Act

Votes

June 2, 2021 Passed 2nd reading of Bill C-272, An Act to Amend the Copyright Act (diagnosis, maintenance or repair)

Industry, Science and Technology Committee, on June 22, 2021

  • Monique Gomel, Interim Chair of the Board of Directors, Canadian Tourism Commission
  • Marsha Walden, President and Chief Executive Officer, Canadian Tourism Commission