This enactment amends the Copyright Act to allow a person, in certain circumstances, to circumvent a technological protection measure to make a computer program interoperable with any device or component, or with a product they manufacture.

Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows:

Interoperability

41.‍12 (1) Paragraph 41.‍1(1)‍(a) does not apply to a person who

• Insertion start (a) Insertion end  owns a computer program or a copy of one, or has a licence to use the program or copy, and who circumvents a technological protection measure that protects that program or copy for the purpose of obtaining information Insertion start and allowing Insertion end the person to make the program Insertion start or a device in which it is embedded Insertion end interoperable Insertion start with Insertion end any other computer program, Insertion start device or component; or Insertion end

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  (b) manufactures a product and circumvents a technological protection measure that protects a computer program embedded in another product for the sole purpose of allowing the person to make the computer program, or a device in which it is embedded, interoperable with the manufactured product.

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