CSIA Releases White Paper
18 December 2007
The Canadian Software Innovation Alliance has made public its White Paper on open source and copyright policy. Titled “Software Innovation, Copyright and the Dangers of Anti-Circumvention Legislation”, the paper offers an account of the economic significance of Canada’s open source sector, reviews the importance of balanced copyright to open source innovators, and outlines the danger anti-circumvention laws poses to open source innovators. The White Paper concludes with a series of recommendations to Canadian policy makers for minimizing the risk of harm anti-circumvention laws pose to software innovation.