Time to replace the maple leaf by the Jolly Rogers?

Frank points to this CNet article where Michael Geist speaks ont he differences between Canadian and US copyright laws.

He does confirm what I argued about before regarding downloading from filesharing networks and private copying:

I’m inclined to think that you’d have a pretty good argument as an individual user–that personal, noncommercial copying is permitted by the exemption.

The one caveat–and this is where there have been many myths–is that there is little doubt under Canadian copyright law that making those same songs available to others is not permissible.

So many interesting things are going on in the cyberlaw space right now, I find it very frustrating as I am spending most of my time away from my computer these days. I barely have time to read my news.