The CBC is adopting some pretty regressive licensing!
CBC’s new licencing plan: Pay to Print, Email, and Blog, and outsource
enforcement to American Copyright Digital Rights Bounty Hunters -
http://cameronmcmaster.wordpress.com/2010/01/29/cbcs-new-licencing-plan-pay-to-print-email-and-blog-and-outsource-enforcement-to-american-copyright-witch-hunting/
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation signs up with weird American copyright bounty-hunters -
http://www.boingboing.net/2010/01/30/canadian-broadcastin.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+boingboing%2FiBag+%28Boing+Boing%29
Here is a note I wrote them:
I thought the CBC was a public service supported with public dollars? If that is the case does Crown Copyright not already cover the content? And is your content not public domain and would a Creative Commons Attribution license not be the way to go? Otherwise why give you public dollars? You want my support, and I give it, but now you are going to far! This is not my CBC any more. My CBC broadcasts the news in myriad formats to keep us a critical thinking democracy, my CBC does not sell me the news or thwart me from sharing that news with others providing I attribute the source. My CBC is a knowledge disseminator and not a bounty hunter, that is not my CBC.
Yikes!
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Tracey P. Lauriault
613-234-2805
https://gcrc.carleton.ca/confluence/display/GCRCWEB/Lauriault
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