In the past five years alone, Canada has added anti- The intellectual property (IP) chapter of the circumvention laws similar to those found south North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) of the border, enacted anti-counterfeiting laws, promises to be among the most contentious extended the term of protection for sound recordings, aspects of the trade talks about to get under way. [...] For example, the term of copyright in Canada is presently the life of the author plus an additional 50 years, a term compliant with the international standard set by the Berne Convention.1 The term is life plus 70 years in the United States. [...] He has been the chairman of the Copyright Policy Committee of the Canadian Bar Association and was adviser to the Law Commission of Canada on security interests in intellectual property. [...] In addition, creating new property rights the protection of trade secrets that are the subject in data would require serious consideration of both the of litigation and provides recourse for anyone who adverse impacts on innovation such a right might have suffers damage from the wrongful seizure of materials and of the users’ rights that will be necessary to ensure in the course of such litigation [...] In the United States, the recent applied to compilations of data, could have the effect of passage of the Defend Trade Secrets Act of 20163 overriding the basic copyright principle that data is in reflects the growing US interest in creating a more the public domain.
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