Joe Volpe vs Capt Copyright
p2p news / p2pnet: Here’s an interesting juxtaposition:
Wannabe Liberal leader Joe Volpe raked in a $108,000 in campaign contributions, among which was $27,000 from five children under eighteen, including 11-year-old twins, of Apotex Pharmaceuticals executives.
Volpe had to give the money – the $27K, that is – back. But not before the CIRA (Canadian Internet Registration Authority) and CDNS (Canadian Domain Name Services) forced offline a parody site centering on the kids’ donations.
Quite right. We can’t, after all, have that kind of scurvy material left online for just anyone to see. But that being so, we wonder why the CIRA is allowing the appalling Captain Copyright to stay online?
Apart from the fact it’s riddled with critical factual errors while purporting to be instructional material suitable for young children, it’s blatant hogwash of the worst kind.
Could the fact www.captaincopyright.ca is, “operated and owned by the The Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency, carrying on business as Access Copyright,” be anything to do with it, do you think?
Meanwhile, the CIRA is located at 1 Yonge Street, Suite 1900, Toronto, Ontario, M5E 1E5.
If you have any questions or observations, don’t hesitate to phone them at (416) 868-1620 or toll-free at 1 (800) 893-5777, or to email them at privacy@accesscopyright.ca.
Digg this story.
Also See:
parody site – Canada’s Captain Copyright, June 1, 2006
appalling Captain Copyright – The Pirate Bay back online, June 3, 2005
critical factual errors – Access Copyright fiasco, June 5, 2006
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June 6th, 2006 at 1:44 am
That’s not necessarily an accurate description of what happened; I’d suggest you take a look at Michael Geist’s take on the situation, at http://michaelgeist.ca/component/option,com_content/task,view/id,1277/comment_write,/comment_view,1/. He’s on the CIRA board. His description is that the registrar, which is *not* the same thing as CIRA, yanked the site; CIRA’s involvement was only to make the database update as requested by the registrar.
Of course, it’s still a bad thing that the registrar did this; but Web site operators at least have the opportunity to shop around for a friendly registrar, whereas they don’t have any alternative to CIRA for .ca domains. It’s much like an ISP taking down a site: certainly a bad thing, but not as bad as the government doing it.
June 6th, 2006 at 6:52 am
Hey, you are in violation of copyright. The Captian Copyright comic is copyrighted.
How ironic though.
June 6th, 2006 at 11:52 am
Speaking of being in violation of intellectual property rights, the CC website states:
“All trade marks used and/or displayed on this website, including, without limitation, Access Copyright, the Access Copyright logo, CANCOPY and the CANCOPY logo are registered or unregistered trade marks of The Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency or other parties whose ownership is evident from the site.”
Yet they used the trademark “Yellow Pages” ™ on their site, at:
http://www.captaincopyright.ca/Kids/Comic8.aspx
without acknowledging the trademark belongs to someone else. Or even that it is a trade mark.
Yahoo!
June 6th, 2006 at 5:18 pm
According to Mickael Geists’ web site:
“…several school boards in Canada are promoting Captain Copyright. These include the Vancouver School Board (District #39), Richmond School Board (District #38), and the Halton District School Board in Ontario.”
I would pull my kids from those one sided propagana materials.