The federal government is poised to introduce a new copyright bill within the next six weeks that will include American-inspired anti-circumvention measures and reject flexible fair dealing, Michael Geist says.

Geist, a digital rights advocate and the Canada research chair of Internet and e-commerce law at the University of Ottawa, posted on his blog Wednesday that the Conservative government is planning “a virtual repeat” of its former Bill C-61. 

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