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Canadian Copyright Reform
Posted by
michael
on Thu Sep 06, 2001 03:23 PM
from the canadian-DMCA-looming dept.
from the canadian-DMCA-looming dept.
mikers writes: "The Government of Canada is looking for submissions into their public consultation process of Copyright reform. Up until September 15th, 2001, we Canadians can voice our opinions on two consultation papers - the first of which is titled "Consultation Paper on Digital Copyright Issues" - that will shape changes made to the Canadian Copyright Act in the years to come. "Industry Canada and the Department of Canadian Heritage are seeking comments regarding possible amendments to the Copyright Act with respect to the issues described in these two consultation documents... Subject to consent, all written submissions received will be posted on the two departments' websites ..." Now would be a good time to get your comments in and tell our government our views, or else risk letting "industry experts" and other non-geeks (Canadian RIAA) have the only say."
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Call to arms! (Score:1)
Alright, Canadians. It's time to make ourselves heard. I've seen post after post bemoaning the fact that most of the people concerned about the DMCA in the U.S. never said anything when they could have. And this is usually accompanied with a bunch of hand-wringing and 'if only I had...'.
Get your asses in gear. Now's the time to make sure that the uninformed bureaucrat receiving submissions has heard the whole story. And we'll have no one to blame but ourselves if they don't find out.
However, if they listen to what we all say and throw it out the window, that will just be our wonderful Canadian 'democratic' system in action. Hehe.
Rock
I sent my letter in (Score:2, Insightful)
So have you sent in your letter?
Make your voices heard. (Score:1)
This review process is in addition to attempts to get DMCA style legislation passed here via the FTAA (see previous Slashdot article [slashdot.org]).
It is important that we in Canada voice our objections to any laws similiar to those in the US.
While you are writing your letters, it would be worthwhile to send copies to several other people in goverment who are involved in the copyright arena. I've put together a list of relevant contacts here [steenerson.com].
We do not need another DMCA