ISP liability in Parliament

[Matthew Skala]

Yesterday in Parliament there was some discussion of ISP liability in the
context of Senate amendments to C-15A, starting at this point:

   http://www.parl.gc.ca/37/1/parlbus/chambus/house/debates/171_2002-04-18/han171_1510-E.htm#SOB-204685

Lots of talk about just what circumstances should be necessary for an ISP
to be liable for child pornography "access" offences through its
facilities.  This is something we ought to be watching very closely.  We
can talk all we want about ISP liability for copyright infringement, but
if Parliament passes rules for ISP liability on "access" of child
pornography, we stand a good chance of being stuck with the same rules for
copyright infringement no matter what we've discussed here.  (On the other
hand, we can well argue that the rules for copyright infringement should
not be any stricter than those for child pornography.)

A few additional comments, mixed into my commentary on other events of
yesterday, are in my newly RSS-enabled web log at:

   http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/lebwog.html#041901

Matthew Skala, CS PhD student, University of Waterloo
mskala at math.uwaterloo.ca  <-- school
mskala at ansuz.sooke.bc.ca  <-- home
http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/   http://www.edifyingfellowship.org/

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