James Gannon's IP Blog

Yesterday, the Toronto Star published an opinion piece that I wrote titled “Bill C-32, copyright and digital locks”. The piece makes the argument that opposition to protection for TPMs is generally rooted in a view that any restrictions on the use a consumers can make of goods that they purchased is an indefensible affront to consumer rights. While this philosophy may apply to physical goods (and it doesn’t always), adopting this view with regard to intellectual property goods is dangerous indeed.