No more settlement demands in notice-and-notice letters: gov’t
Media | 04/26/2018 4:56 pm EDT
Innovation Canada is pledging to regulate what makes up and goes into notice letters, it said as it announced its new intellectual property strategy Thursday.
The government is looking to ban demands for settlement payments in the letters, the abuse of which has been flagged as a concern in the past. The notice-and-notice regime, which requires internet service providers (ISPs) to forward letters, came into force in 2015.
One critic of the regime was NDP innovation critic Brian Masse, who told The Wire Report in June last year that the government needed to take action on the
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