{"id":961,"date":"2010-07-12T12:45:32","date_gmt":"2010-07-12T17:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikew.ca\/wp\/?p=961"},"modified":"2025-01-13T11:51:12","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T11:51:12","slug":"brazil-copyright-law-significantly-better-than-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/?p=961","title":{"rendered":"Brazil copyright law significantly better than Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I saw this link this morning, and I though I&#8217;d pass it on:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2010\/07\/10\/brazils-copyright-la.html\">Brazil&#8217;s copyright law forbids using DRM to block fair use<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>To me, the critical point is that (as it says in the article title) they do not allow &#8220;digital locks&#8221; to block your fair use rights. Just so everyone is aware, this is <em>not<\/em> true for the new <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.parl.gc.ca\/HousePublications\/Publication.aspx?DocId=4580265&amp;Language=e&amp;Mode=1\">Canadian copyright law<\/a> that is currently being introduced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(I know this is the kind of thing that we tweet, in this modern age, but I wanted to keep the link around for future reference (and I still like the &#8220;link of the day&#8221; concept).)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this link this morning, and I though I&#8217;d pass it on: Brazil&#8217;s copyright law forbids using DRM to block fair use To me, the critical point is that (as it says in the article title) they do not allow &#8220;digital locks&#8221; to block your fair use rights. Just so everyone is aware, this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linkoftheday","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=961"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3046,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961\/revisions\/3046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}