INDU Committee Report
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| In accordance with its Order of Reference of Wednesday, October 5, 2022, your Committee has considered Bill C-244, An Act to amend the Copyright Act (diagnosis, maintenance and repair), and agreed on Wednesday, March 22, 2023, to report it with the following amendment: |
Clause 2 That Bill C-244, in Clause 2, be amended by replacing line 24 on page 1 to line 11 on page 2 with the following: “41.121 (1) Paragraph 41.1(1)(a) does not apply to a person who circumvents a technological protection measure for the sole purpose of maintaining or repairing a product, including any related diagnosing, if the work, performer’s performance fixed in a sound recording or sound recording to which the technological protection measure controls access forms a part of the product. (2) For greater certainty, subsection (1) applies to a person who circumvents a technological protection measure in the circumstances referred to in that subsection for another person. (3) A person acting in the circumstances referred to in subsection (1) is not entitled to benefit from the exception under that subsection if the person does an act that constitutes an infringement of copyright.” |
| Your Committee has ordered a reprint of Bill C-244, as amended, as a working copy for the use of the House of Commons at the report stage. |
| A copy of the relevant Minutes of Proceedings (Meetings Nos. 42, 43, 49, 57, 59, 60 and 63) is tabled. |