More copyright delays

This time business is getting involved, through the creation of an organization called the Business Coalition for Balanced Copyright:

A who's who of powerful companies and business associations have banded together to push for less restrictive copyright reform, driving a stake into the heart of the federal government's argument for its new copyright bill.

The Business Coalition for Balanced Copyright, a group that includes Google, Yahoo, Rogers, Telus, the Canadian Alliance of Broadcasters and the Retail Council of Canada, among others, on Tuesday sent its stance on seven key copyright principles to Industry Minister Jim Prentice, Canadian Heritage Minister Josée Verner and several other cabinet ministers.

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As usual, Michael Geist has an analysis of the organization's stance and also is suggesting that this may have put a hold on the introduction of new copyright legislation for another month or so.