[Discuss] Stiffling debate on the new copyright law
pw
p.willis at telus.net
Tue Dec 4 15:35:18 PST 2007
George Farris wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-12-04 at 00:13 -0800, Corey Burger wrote:
>> As has been discussed on this before, Canada looks set to pass a new
>> copyright law similar to the US DMCA. However, as has been pointed
>> out, absolutely no concrete information is available to the public.
>> Given the Industry Ministers recent refusal to go on a CBC program,
>> Search Engine, to take listeners commenters, I can only conclude that
>> the Conservative gov't has concluded that a large public debate would
>> generate so much negative publicity to kill the bill. This is very
>> dangerous. Michael Geist has a great blog post [1], about who to
>> contact about the upcoming law and to express what you feel should be
>> in it.
>>
>> [1] http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/2431/125/
>>
>
> You can use this to create a point and click letter to email, I am also
> printing a hard copy and snail mailing it off to my MP.
>
> http://www.onlinerights.ca/get_active/copyright_reform_action/
>
Now you just need to incite 2 or 3 friends to do the same and get them
to incite 2 or 3 of their friends...etc.
Peter
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