What’s with the Copyight Consultation Submissions?
p2pnet news view | P2P | Politics:- “I’ve been trying to contact the Copyright Policy Branch at Heritage to no avail regarding my own submission dated 07-09-2009,” says Marc in a comment to Michael Geist’s post wondering what’s happened to the Copyight Consultation Submissions.
“Since Tuesday, a daily voice mail message requesting an update has gone unanswered,” says Marc. “I’m unaware of a working email address which would be preferred over voice.”
Says Richard, “My comments which were submitted on September 9th have also not been posted.”
And, “I was thinking of writing to you about that myself – others from the day I sent mine in are posted, but mine isn’t,” says Matthew, adding, “I decided not to add to your incoming email because I noticed that for many days including mine, there are exactly five submissions posted. Not four or six, always five.
“It’s not plausible, if mine and a few others were randomly missed or even deleted on purpose for some reason, that the result would be exactly five remaining per day. Seems more likely there’s something systematic going on independent of the submission content. For instance, I could imagine someone saying to someone else, ‘Well, if you don’t have time to do them all right now, make sure you get at least five up for each day to show we’re making an effort…’ ”
Nor are they alone.
“For the past week, I’ve been receiving daily emails from Canadians asking if I know why their copyight consultation submission has not been posted,” say Geist, going on:
“The website currently includes some submissions for every day the consultation was open (September 15th), yet there are thousands of submissions that are still not up. My last update accounted for just over 4,000 submissions and there are rumours that the final number topped 7,000 (10 times the number of submissions in the 2001 consultation). While some delay in processing and posting all of those submissions is reasonable, the lack of information about the situation is not.”
The government opened the consultation with a, “strong commitment to openness and transparency,” says Geist, adding:
“That should continue to the end of the consultation with a full update on status of the missing submissions, the reasons for the delays, and the anticipated date for the posting of all submissions.”
Stay tuned. But don’t hold your breath.
Michael Geist – Where Are The Copyight Consultation Submissions?, September 24, 2009
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September 25th, 2009 at 12:08 pm
What also ticked me off is that when someone on this website asked for info about Quebecor, I used the Econsultations websites search function to try and locate the exact quotes.
Guess what, the governments search function does work. I don’t think it ever has, so I had to go and find the Quebecor info manually.
Yesterday it seems Howard Knopf also came across this:
http://excesscopyright.blogspot.com/2009/09/where-have-submissions-gone.html
BTW, Howard’s submission is M.I.A.
September 25th, 2009 at 12:24 pm
I said:
“Guess what, the governments search function does work”
Meant to say:
“Guess what, the governments search function DOESN’T work”
typo
September 25th, 2009 at 1:40 pm
Is anyone really surprised by this? The Harper government has always said it will be transparent, but invisible is what they meant, invisible to your eye! Perhaps this “consultation” was really just going through the motions?