Comments on: CRIA pre-election copyright ploy

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 31 Dec 2005 02:08:18 +0000

Their press release included a gem where they claim that the NDP, by not towing the CRIA line, is giving votes to the Liberals. The NDP’s position comes largely from Charlie Angus, an independant musician, and clearly demonstrates the diverging interests of musicians and the interests of CRIA.

Whether musicians or music fans, those frequenting this site should put their money and time where their mouth is and support candidates that understand that support for the incumbent intermediaries opposes creators and Canadian creativity.

I blogged this issue earlier today with a letter to the most likely candidate to unseat CRIA “friend” Sam Bulte:

Letter to Peggy Nash: Time to give Bulte the boot!
http://www.digital-copyright.ca/node/1632

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 29 Dec 2005 20:47:50 +0000

99.99% wants the CRIA to crawl back into their cave.
(.01% are the CRIA members)

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 29 Dec 2005 20:02:18 +0000

Polls. like statistics are frequetly (not always) biased becase the purpose of the of proving a preconveived idea or to place a mantle of legitimacy and cribility to a scam.

This polls seems t be part of a scam.

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“91 percent of Canadians believe that artists should be protected by copyright”

“protect” ?

As far s I know no copyright law gives any protection. It gives limited monopoly rights, which is fine. But…
Do Canadians know:
- who are the artists and their plight or well being?
- that the rights that are given to artists are very easily taken away through an array of method perfected by the copyright cartels which are nothing more than forced take-it-or-leave-it contract traps?
- which artists expressed themselves about this problem so that their expressions are taken into consideration by the Canadians before the survey was made?
- were the surveyed Canadians aware of the contract-trap problem?
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“68 percent want stronger copyright laws”

stronger?

- does this mean more rights to the artists? or the cartels? or to the public?
- are artists asking for more rights? which ones?
- are the cartels asking for more rights? which ones?
- is the public asking for more rights? which ones?
- is the public aware that rights given to one of the three above, the rights are reduced from the other two?
- is culture flrishing with the present copyright scheme?
- what is the copyright trade cash flow? Outward to the world, inward to Canada or is it balanced? What are the monet figures?
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Rafael Venegas
http://www.gvenegas.com