%0 Journal Article %J Open Source Business Resource %D 2007 %T Protecting Information Technology Property Rights %A Russell McOrmond %X New copyright legislation is on its way from the Canadian government, and may have been tabled by the time you are reading this. While we won't know exactly what is in the bill until it is tabled in the House of Commons for first reading, the Government has made many statements indicating that it intends to ratify the highly controversial 1996 WIPO treaties. I believe it is important for open source developers and users to be aware of how some of the proposed changes may affect open source in Canada. %B Open Source Business Resource %I Talent First Network %C Ottawa %8 12/2007 %G eng %U http://timreview.ca/article/107 %N December 2007 %9 Articles %1 Digital Copyright Canada Russell McOrmond is a self-employed Internet and F/LOSS consultant, joining the Free Software movement back in 1992. He is the policy coordinator for CLUE: Canada's association for Open Source, private-sector co-coordinator for GOSLING (Getting Open Source Logic INto Governments), and the host for the Digital Copyright Canada forum. Full contact information and links to these groups are at http://flora.ca.