C-11 An Act to amend the Copyright Act
C-11 An Act to amend the Copyright Act
That Bill C-11, in Clause 47, be amended by adding after line 26 on page 47 the following:
“(5) Paragraph (1)( a) does not apply to a qualified person who circumvents a technological protection measure on behalf of another person who is lawfully entitled to circumvent that technological protection measure.
(6) Paragraphs (1)( b) and (c) do not apply to a person who provides a service to a qualified person or who manufactures, imports or provides a technology, device or component, for the purposes of enabling a qualified person to circumvent a technological protection measure in accordance with this Act.
(7) A qualified person may only circumvent a technological protection measure under subsection (5) if
( a) the work or other subject-matter to which the technological protection measure is applied is not an infringing copy; and
( b) the qualified person informs the person on whose behalf the technological protection measure is circumvented that the work or other subject-matter is to be used solely for non-infringing purposes.
(8) The Governor in Council may, for the purposes of this section, make regulations
( a) defining “qualified person”;
( b) prescribing the information to be recorded about any action taken under subsection (5) or (6) and the manner and form in which the information is to be kept; and
( c) prescribing the manner and form in which the conditions set out in subsection (7) are to be met.”