Copyright consultation submissions
p2pnet news view | P2P | Politics:- With less than six weeks left in the copyright consultation, the number of submissions continues to grow and, “summarizing each submission has proven too difficult,” blogs Michael Geist.
So, “I’ll be posting regular updates that track the main points of the various submissions instead”.
| Position | Number of Supporters |
| Submissions against another Bill C-61 | 90 |
| Submissions in favour of shorter Copyright term | 34 |
| Submissions against anti-circumvention or in favour of limiting DRM/Digital locks | 114 |
| Submissions in favour of stronger personal use/copying and backup protections | 100 |
| Submissions in favour of an open copyright system | 7 |
| Submissions advocating an end to the Crown Copyright | 3 |
| Submissions opposed to adopting an American-styled DMCA | 15 |
| Submissions in favour of stronger fair use/fair dealing protections | 17 |
| Submissions opposed to implementing WIPO | 4 |
| Submissions in favour of eliminating all copyright | 2 |
| Submissions against a three-strikes rule | 4 |
| Submissions that favour a notice and notice approach | 83 |
| Submissions in favour of instituting a levy for file-sharing | 4 |
| Submissions in favour of greater exemptions for education/research | 6 |
| Submissions in favour of establish a good-faith defence that the user believed their use of a work was fair and non-infringing | 83 |
| Submissions in favour of stronger penalties for copyright infringement | 1 |
| Submissions in favour of turning copyright into a crime | 1 |
Stay tuned.
Michael Geist – Tracking the Copyright Consultation Submissions: July 20 – 24, 2009, August 5, 2009
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August 5th, 2009 at 1:37 pm
Submissions in favour of greater exemptions for education/research 6
Submissions in favour of greater exemptions for education/research 6
That one is listed twice.
August 5th, 2009 at 1:39 pm
I think we can divide POTENTIAL submitters into two classes: optimists who did and pessimists who didn’t.
In the former we have two incredibly optimistic abolitionists vs a fairly even split between maximalists/reformists/traditionalists all reasonably optimistic that their views will be taken into consideration.
In the latter camp we have a vast number of pessimistic abolitionists who realised there was no point making any submission, and a tiny minority of other pessimists who figured their views would be better expressed by others.
However, the abolitionists are only pessimistic that abolition can be achieved through petition. They are actually quite confident that it will be achieved as a natural inevitability.
We can therefore sit back and wait, quietly amused as the kids franticly shore up the sides of their sandcastles on the beach…
as liberty comes racing back like the tide over flat sands.
August 5th, 2009 at 2:29 pm
@ shadowblack
Thanks. Fixed.
Actually, it was there 3 times.
I had a bit of trouble with the formatting.
Cheers!