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p2p news / p2pnet: Online Rights Canada, a joint initiative of EFF and CIPPIC, has launched an important new grassroots campaign on copyright reform.
With Canadian musicians speaking out in favour of balance, ORC is ensuring that individual Canadians can easily have their voice heard as well.
The campaign makes it easy to write to your local MP (electronically and in print) to remind them of the dangers associated with DMCA-style copyright legislation.
Michael Geist
[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[at]uottawa.ca and is on-line at www.michaelgeist.ca.]
May 8th, 2006 at 2:40 pm
hope that the clear thinking spreads to USA
Doubt it though, with Bush there.
May 8th, 2006 at 4:03 pm
USA is already dead. Bush killed it. I seriously doubt USA will ever recover, unless a complete government reform happens in the next few years.
May 8th, 2006 at 11:33 pm
The DMCA was passed during the Clinton years, with the underlying philosophy that we have been fighting since the early 1990’s originating out of Al Gore’s National Information Infrastructure taskforce.
This is not a “Bush” or even a “Republican” issue. In fact, Hollywood and the media cartels have a much stronger hold on the USA’s “Left” than they do the right.
May 9th, 2006 at 12:04 pm
The criminalization of American youth for non criminal acts like copying songs has ocurred during the Bush administration.
Bush has stood idly while the cartel’ lobbies have invaded (and literally purchased) Congresss and the Bush’s own administration and even the courts for this purpose of criminalization, so as to scaring people into buying their mostly worthless but expensive music and “entertainment” crap.
To get out of the copyright madness a level headed leader with culture and a sense of justice is needed at the White House. Bush is not that leader.
Rafael Venegas
http://www.gvenegas.com