MPAA to Obama: Get Canada!
p2pnet news view Politics | Movies:- The election of Barack Obama has led to considerable speculation about what the change in administration might mean for US pressure on Canada on intellectual property issues.
If the MPAA — the lead Hollywood lobbyist — has anything to say about it, the pressure will only increase.
Eighteen months after MPAA pressure led to a Canadian anti-camcording legislation and just weeks after the first successful conviction under the new provision, the MPAA has asked to Obama to target Canada (along with China, India, Mexico, Russia, and Spain) in its intellectual property trade policy.
While groups such as the Computer and Communications Industry Association have urged Obama to stop alienating allies by “browbeating its trade partners”, the MPAA lobby document makes it clear that the copyright lobby groups will continue to blame Canada, despite the fact that Canada is compliant with its international obligations.
Claiming that Canadian law is akin to China or Russia ought to be dismissed outright, yet the ease with which the Canadian government caved to pressure on the camcording issue has apparently emboldened the same lobby group to demand even more.
Michael Geist
[Geist is the Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-commerce Law at the University of Ottawa. He can be reached by email at mgeist[at]uottawa.ca and is on-line at www.michaelgeist.ca.]
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December 10th, 2008 at 3:43 pm
Simple solution is to just write to Barack Obama at change.gov and tell him to get America to stop alienating allies by “browbeating its trade partners”. Hopefully, he’ll tell the RIAA and MPAA to shut the hell up.
December 10th, 2008 at 5:15 pm
Really simple solution to both the RIAA and the MPAA and their gestapo tactics, have President – Elect Obama, shut them both down after an congressional investigation into their business practices by the DOJ.
December 10th, 2008 at 10:31 pm
CANADA to OBAMA
TAKE OFF EH
stupid hoser
we should get the soon to be coalition in power and then outlaw the CRIA and the other facist stickheads
look at greece obama you keep pushing its gonna go real bad all round
December 11th, 2008 at 6:07 am
Told ya so
But Canadians are too lazy to stand up and FULLY protest, bill those idiots, give ‘em Notice of Understanding and Intent and take ‘em to court each time a notice is sent to our users .. that’s the real problem.
If we don’t blast them fully it’s only going to get much worse till we loose our internet
December 11th, 2008 at 8:47 am
Quote: Simple solution is to just write to Barack Obama at change.gov and tell him to get America to stop alienating allies by âbrowbeating its trade partnersâ. Hopefully, heâll tell the RIAA and MPAA to shut the hell up.
Sorry not going to happen with “Hollywood joe as his VP just going to be more of the same.
December 11th, 2008 at 1:07 pm
OBAMA to MPAA/RIAA:
Go and fuck yourself parasites!
This is the response I am expecting/
December 11th, 2008 at 3:32 pm
Ha Ha Ha I’m laughing at you! anyone who voted for Obama and brought into his rhetoric of “change” will be sorely dissappointed. Obama is sock puppet for the elite bankers and croporations that rule over us ith no problems, simply sending him a message at change.com will not change anything Bobo, now go back to sleep with your mumbo jumbo nonsense.
December 11th, 2008 at 5:11 pm
Say “bye” to the old boss, and meet the new boss. “Change” = no change. Just take a look at Obama’s cabinet appointments.