Michael Geist covers the re-assignment of Patricia Neri, the Director General of Copyright Policy at Heritage, amid rumours she was having a relationship with Douglas Frith (head of the Canadian Motion Picture Distributors Association). The thing that really makes this suspect is that Neri recently oversaw the movie theatre anti-cam legislation, and probably influenced the upcoming (expected) copyright legislation. One has to wonder what impact her boyfriend (who is buddy-buddy with the MPAA, naturally) has had on Canadian copyright policy… are we headed for an incredibly one-sided bill being tabled in the House of Commons? More-so than we’d expected?

I wonder how much the public consultations that have been going on have been impacting anything… are we just background noise to “official policy”?

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