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On April 19, another major set of Copyright Act amendments (PDF) was introduced with the explicit goal of bringing India into compliance "with the provisions of the two WIPO Internet Treaties, to the extent considered necessary and desirable." (Note that final clause; we'll return to it in a bit.)

This legal update has been in the works for years—it goes back to at least 2005. It also contains several things that the big content industries would seem to want, such as a ban on circumventing DRM and threatening both fines and jail time for those who do so.

So why are the copyright industries so upset at India's attempt to bring its copyright into the Internet era? Isn't that what they want?

 

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