Following are some links of interest to those who wish to study Bill C-61 and related issues. The lists below should be considered a work in-progress; the hope is that they will be expanded as time permits. The best way to make sure that this happens would be for you, the reader, to email your links and comments to: info at montrealfamily dot net.

Updated 2008-06-21: Many thanks to Dr. Michael Geist and Fair Copyright Canada for many of the links below.

The home page for the Government of Canada Copyright Reform Process is here. This page contains a number of links to additional information from Industry Canada including background information and FAQs. This page also contains links to the bill itself, which can be found at the Parliament of Canada web site. The document is available in various formats:

• View Bill C-61 in your browser. The link to the web version of the document is here.
• A copy of the document in PDF format can be found here. If you already have the Adobe Acrobat software installed on your computer, you can click the link and, after the file loads into your browser, click on the icon of the floppy disk to save the file to your hard disk.

There are many web pages of interest to serious students of this subject. Various groups and organizations have been involved for some time in matters related to copy rights. For the most part, these are American groups that have been involved in litigation related to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA,) which has been roundly criticized as a disaster for Fair Use rights in the United States. Following are a few links to web sites and published articles.