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New document shows EU using trade talks to push copyright reform in Canada

By Stuart Trew
| January 20, 2010

A month ago yesterday I predicted a leaked intellectual property rights (IPR) chapter in the proposed Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) was "bound to create a furor." Boy was I wrong. The story caused a stir among the fair copyright movement and other followers of IPR reform in Canada. But not a single mainstream news outlet followed up on the story or commented on the leak - not even in the lead-up to this week's second round of bilateral trade talks in Brussels.

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