Reduce fair dealing, no taping tv shows
p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- “Man, if these yahoos set out to destroy the public’s faith in copyright, they could not do a better job than they’re doing now.”
That’s Cory Doctorow on BoingBoing.
The ‘yahoos’ are the people at Access Copyright.
But do the members of the public who even know what copyright is have faith in it? Not if they’re aware of the Access Copyright Captain Copyright debacle.
Doctorow was commenting on Michael Geist’s blog post in which he says:
“The Government continues to post copyright consultation submissions (still lots to go one month after the consultation concluded) with many making for interesting reading.”
Access Copyright’s submission is worth noting for two reasons, Geist states, continuing »»»
First, rather than simply arguing against flexible fair dealing, it argues that the current fair dealing provision as interpreted by the Supreme Court of Canada is actually too broad.
It states:
Rather than an expansion of fair dealing, Access Copyright believes that it may be necessary to qualify the fair dealing provision as set out by the Supreme Court of Canada in the CCH decision, in order to ensure that Canada is compliant with the three-step test. Access Copyright contends that the fair dealing provision as interpreted by the Supreme Court of Canada conflicts with the normal exploitation of a work and causes an unreasonable loss of income to creators and publishers.
The collective goes on to say that research should be limited to non-commercial instances only (the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that there was no such limitation).
Access Copyright also takes aim at format and time shifting, submitting “that good public policy should not be dictated by legalizing common public practices.” It is particularly concerned with format shifting, arguing for additional compensation for such exceptions.
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win ~ Mahatma Gandhi
BoingBoing – Access Copyright tells Canadian gov’t: no home TV recording, no ripping music, no moving old ebooks to new readers, October 14, 2009
Michael Geist – Access Copyright: Reduce Fair Dealing, No Taping TV Shows or Format Shifting, October 14, 2009
Captain Copyright debacle – Captain Copyright shot down, August 18, 2006
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October 15th, 2009 at 10:14 am
I’ve spent the better part of the last decade hopeful some kind of compromise would be reached, that the copyright industry would see reason and respect the common good of the public. Sadly that is looking less and less likely as time goes by. It is the public whom chooses whether a price is fair or not and it is the public who puts money in their coffers, making them rich. It never ceases to amaze me how blind and short sighted the industry is being when it acts the way it does, calling it’s very own customers criminals, generating anger and resentment. If they need protection from anyone, it is themselves. After reading the above I have to admit that I am beginning to lose the last of my optimism, not just for a better future but also in our governments ability to do the right thing by taking an honest stand for all of this country’s people. With the path we seem to be on right now, I see a bleak future with no more fair dealings when it comes to copyright and no more far dealing when it comes to finding justice in the courts. Just look at Sweden and how difficult it has been for TPB to get a fair trial, something supposedly guaranteed as a constitutional right. With most judges having business ties to the very industry attacking all of us, the future is looking very dark indeed. I have a feeling it is going to get much worse before it begins to get better too. Greed, fear, ignorance and intolerance. I feel these four will be the true horsemen of the apocalypse.
October 15th, 2009 at 11:00 am
Every little bit they get, they go for even more, and usually get it.
I suggested this to someone else.
I was mocked ‘You see the future and it’s all BAD’ I was told.
No, I see what’s happening now all around, and it follows the same pattern
everywhere.
We’ll see about the future.
October 15th, 2009 at 11:02 am
I wish I could remember the article, there was one here at p2pnet mentioning
some corporate boob said that taping a show and skipping the commercials
was the same as ’stealing’. They like that word.
October 15th, 2009 at 12:14 pm
@Dredd:
“I wish I could remember the article, there was one here at p2pnet mentioning some corporate boob said that taping a show and skipping the commercials was the same as ’stealing.”
http://www.p2pnet.net/story/4844
October 15th, 2009 at 12:21 pm
@Dredd:
That last link isn’t it, but these probably are:
http://w2.eff.org/effector/HTML/effect15.15.html#II
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/23/technology/23VIDE.html%3F8hpib
October 15th, 2009 at 12:37 pm
Thanks DA.
The whole family, including me, is down with a flu bug so my brain really
isn’t functioning at full capacity. I was lucky to remember the article
existed