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“Before running for the Liberal Party in the riding of Louis-Hébert, Ms. Scherrer worked briefly as a social worker and later was involved in city politics in the middle-class Quebec suburb of Sillery…”

What in the hell does a social worker know about intellectual property rights?

“Now is a time we can differentiate ourselves from the rest of the fodder, stand up as a nation against foriegn influence on how we govern ourselves. We pride ourselves in our differences with Americans, let’s not go down the same foolish road named DMCA.

Don’t let this slip by like the US to wake up one morning and finally appreciate the rights we enjoy, only because they’re gone.”

we have to be vigilant now instead of remorseful in hindsight.

http://www.capacoa.ca/news/news-links/2004-01/01.html

“The newly appointed Minister of Culture and Heritage, first-time cabinet minister Hélène Chalifour Scherrer, knows little about the Canadian arts industry.”
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“According to Colleen Blake of the Shaw Festival, Scherrer and colleagues asserted their belief that only large arts groups have the ability to improve Canada’s international profile by touring abroad.”

http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20040119/COG19/TPNational/Columnists
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“Her successor as Heritage Minister, Hélène Scherrer, is undoubtedly an energetic person, too; so much so that she was the first Liberal MP to plunge the knife into Mr. Chrétien’s back and publicly call for his resignation — which precisely seems to be the main reason why she was chosen to be part of Paul Martin’s cabinet.”
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“A reporter asked her what was her favourite cultural activity. “Sports,” she replied bluntly.
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more on the lady:
http://www.rabble.ca/babble/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic&f=4&t=000995

We have an opportunity to pave the way for the rest of the world and show them how file sharing and compensating the rights holder can be done. That it is possible and achievable.

Didn’t one of his cronies explain to him why the CRIA lost? Doesn’t he care that it was their own doing? That “make available” isn’t in our copyright act and that the CRIA tried arguing it should be in this case? that they didn’t even prove the “files” shared were copyrighted material?
As a Lawyer he should be ashamed of his fellow bar members. What law school did they go to?

So they want to throw away everything we’ve acheived because the bullies lost this time? *bangs head on table repeatedly*

It scares me that these companies have this much clout. This knee jerk reaction isn’t going to help any of us and I am terrified that we will end up in the same boat the americans are in, with another DMCA. (You know there is/was a Russian who is being detained in california because of some programming he did in russia? He cant go home because of the DMCA. Because the Americans want to sue him for violating something or other. How is that possible? How can an Act do this to someone ???? More info there: http://www.macfergus.com/niels/dmca/cia.html)

%^$#*@!!!!!!!! I’m so mad I want to rip someone heart out.

PS: If they remove our “fair use” rights, I want them to remove that damn levy on recording media. Was supposed to be an exchange. If that isn’t going to happen, I’ll go to the USA for my CDR’s etc cause I refuse to compensate the big five. I refuse to be the only scape goat for the industries losses.

Now is a time we can differentiate ourselves from the rest of the fodder, stand up as a nation against foriegn influence on how we govern ourselves. We pride ourselves in our differences with Americans, let’s not go down the same foolish road named DMCA.

Don’t let this slip by like the US to wake up one morning and finally appreciate the rights we enjoy, only because they’re gone.

If they can prove what content that the top-filesharers with Canadian IP’s are serving up, those copyrightholders deserve a slice of the pie (proven by the sales of CD’s hard drives, DVD’s, etc). ALL the copyright holders need to get on the bandwagon for their fair share. Hey

So the basics are in place: storage of stuff determines the pie: filesharers determine who eats.

We all know a new competitive business model is needed for the Internet–Finckenstein has shown the way. We get to lobby this election, and Finckenstein has said we can do it in the light, and not from under a rock.

p2p might actually help Canadian music, promote it globally, actually do something for the artist, which is a hell of a lot more than CRIA has ever done.

members of CRIA: did you enjoy that fat split of your share on levies? what it barely paid for your pizza? ohhhhh, you haven’t gotten it yet….

The greed never ends, and it won’t end here.

They have the audacity to want both the blank-media levies to stay in place (even rise) and the 10% charge to ISPs, plus sue people, plus your soul (unless you’re an artist already, then they got that already, using one of their faustian-like contracts.)

Comments like Valentis (I paraphrase)
When questioned re fair use, Valenti replied
“Personal back-ups? If consumers want backup copies then they can go buy another copy from the store”

the audacity is scary, and I fear we’ll be hearing similar things north of the 49th in the near future. And one of the worst thing is that it’ll be a Canadian lawyer with an American business exec’s arm rammed up his ass,

save canadian music my ass…in reality they only wish to perserve a perverse profit margin

no marked drop in price on CDs in 15 years, factor and input prices dropped, proceesses became refined and more efficient, technology was advanced, all contributing to a lower manufactyuring cost. Yet no correlating drop in retain price. Profit margins soared, did the profit reaped by the artist soar in unison? No.

These are the people that will try the hardest to influence the way copyright policy goes, and in the end the only people who will benefit will be them, not the artists nor the consumer.

Copyright rules need reform. We already pay for the downloads, but the CRIA doesn’t deserve to hog the levy. We need to tell our politicians to refine the law so that the Copyright board pays the levy TO THE ORIGINAL ARTISTS: give them back their due respect, whether they are musicians, writers, software creators, TV Shows, movie makers–whomever. Let the downloaders decide what is worth downloading, and divy up the levy accordingly.

Pay the fees based on the measuring what is being downloaded from A CANADIAN ISP to a CANADIAN entitiy.

I don’t like Martin either though, but the NDP doesn’t stand a chance of being elected. So basically we’re screwed. Fuck you , Martin.

Canadian politicians can be bought just as easily as Americans, if the liberal government under Chretien is any indicator, they can probably be coerced even easier.

<shudders at the future, hopes enough people step up when it counts>

I hardly can envision anyone furiously d/ling the latest Celine Dion tragedy….

Anyway, it doesn’t look good for basic civil liberties and the term sharing in general if this corrupt politician has his way.

Who the hell switches political parties like that anyways? Someone who goes where it best for him thats who, not someone who ascribes to a political ideology and embraces it for the good of his country or constituency.

On that note, if fair use is compromised it will be interesting to see if the blank-media tariffs we’re subjected to are revisited – i.e. lowered, abolished. After-all, the premise of the judges decision was the ‘personal copy’ arguement coupled with the photocopying influence.

Will we soon see libraries, schools etc under a similar duress due to the imminent restructuring of copyright laws?