Angus tables copyright petitions
p2pnet.net News:- A new batch of petitions were tabled by Charlie Angus. From Hansard, November 2, 2006.
Mr. Charlie Angus (Timmins—James Bay, NDP): Mr. Speaker, I have the honour to bring forward to the House today two petitions.
The first is signed by people from right across this country in regard to developing new copyright legislation that recognizes the careful balance between the rights of the creator and fair public use. Given that digital technologies have recently given copyright holders the ability to upset the traditional balance in the Copyright Act by preventing Canadians from accessing works that they should have fair access to, the petitioners are asking Parliament to ensure that users are recognized as interested parties in any future copyright decisions and to ensure that any material changes in copyright legislation preserve the concept of fair use and the rights of users to fairly access works.
Russell McOrmond – p2pnet contributing editor
[McOrmond is an independent author (software and non-software) who uses modern business models and licensing (Free/Libre and Open Source Software, Creative Commons). He's also the CLUE policy coordinator.]
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November 4th, 2006 at 6:04 pm
“The first is signed by people from right across this country in regard to developing new copyright legislation that recognizes the careful balance between the rights of the creator and fair public use. Given that digital technologies have recently given copyright holders the ability to upset the traditional balance in the Copyright Act…”
A confusing statement.
Starts out talking about the balance betwwen the creator and the public and then switches to the balance between the cioyright holders anf the public.
For God’s sake. The copyright holders are not the creators. The difference is like night and day. The copyright holders are mostly thieves and foxes. The creators are mostly artists and naive. Never confuse or mix them together in the same paragraph without explaining the differences.
Legislators are in the pockets of the copyrigh holders.
The creators have no one in their pockets.
Peole are confused enough.
November 5th, 2006 at 4:15 pm
Charlie Angus, himself an independant musician, knows the difference between a creator and a copyright holder.
http://www.digital-copyright.ca/edid/35092
The Copyright act was intended to create a ballance between the rights of *creators* and the public. Part of what protects the rights of creators is their ability to sell those rights to someone else (a non-creator copyright holder), but the act is intended to be concerned about the creators first.
If you haven’t signed both of our petitions yet, and sent letters to your MP, please do so. It isn’t enough to complain about MPs or parliament, you need to help educate them. They are not in the pockets of copyright holders, they are listening to the voices that they are hearing — and for the most part people like you and I have historically never bothered to speak!
http://www.digital-copyright.ca/letters