Sizing up Canada’s copyright bill
p2pnet view P2P | Politics:- The day after the government introduced Bill C-32, I spoke at the GRAND Annual Conference, a federal NCE on Graphics, Animation and New Media.
While the full talk discussed recent attempts at copyright reform, I’ve pulled the discussion on C-32 into its own video.
The 16 minute talk – a combination of slides and audio (recorded off an iPhone so excuse the quality) – is available online and posted below.
Michael Geist – Michael Geist’s Blog
[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 @ uottawa dot ca]
June, 2010
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June 8th, 2010 at 12:49 pm
i will support any cause that supports individual rights over financial gains, HOWEVER, i do not trust the legal and political process in place, and frankly, as such, i could care less about being ‘labeled’ a criminal for anything i am doing. This said, I will continue to use content freely the way I have been, and i will sit back in quiet amusement as ‘the powers that be’ carve up the proverbial pie, so to speak.
I live in a different part of reality here, I do not place myself in ‘the pie’ which is being carved up, nor do I identify with any of the would-be carvers… if i am any part of the farce and mess, I would be part of the pie plate, not cut during carving, reusable and infinitely versatile… and the carvers can cut up a thousand pies a thousand ways… and i’ll still be here, just doing MY thing, MY way.
Silly bastards.