Episode 15: Cows, Cars, and Copyright: A Conversation With Myra Tawfik on the IP Concerns With Implementing Canada-US-Mexico Trade Deal
The new NAFTA – dubbed the USMCA or CUSMA depending on where you live – took a significant step forward recently with the introduction of Canadian legislation designed to ratify the treaty. The economic implications of the agreement are enormous, particularly with respect to digital issues and intellectual property. Myra Tawfik, a law professor at the University of Windsor and Senior Fellow with CIGI, joins the podcast this week to discuss Canada’s longstanding history of facing external pressure on copyright, the role that trade negotiations now play with that pressure, and the implications of the USMCA.
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Canada Introduces USMCA Implementation Bill…Without a Copyright Term Extension Provision
Credits:
CBC News, Canada Introduces NAFTA 2.0 Implementation Bill
CNBC, Trump: Trade Deal Protects Patents, Intellectual Property
Globe and Mail, Flashback: President Clinton’s Original Signing of NAFTA Into Law in 1993
CNBC, Key Differences Between the New USMCA Trade Deal and NAFTA
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