Copyright Consultation / Consultations sur le droit d'auteur

[Tracey P. Lauriault]

Copyright Consultation / Consultations sur le droit d'auteur
(July 20 until September 13, 2009)
http://copyright.econsultation.ca/

Funny that we never have such consultations on issues like
homelessness, poverty, women, other social policy issues, humanities
research funding going business, the dismantling of Canada's
scientific institutions, archiving, and so on.  I wonder whom the
"New" government is trying to mobilize for the next election.

Do not get me wrong, I think this is great, and I think those who can
should participate and contribute to this, but lets be critical about
what is not being discussed, lets not get all excited about the
feigning of participatory democracy by this government with this one
and only consultation, and lets think why this is being discussed and
whose interests are being served and whose issues are silent.

Cheers
Tracey
--
Tracey P. Lauriault
613-234-2805
https://gcrc.carleton.ca/confluence/display/GCRCWEB/Lauriault

[catherine]

Indeed !



--
Catherine Roy
http://www.catherine-roy.net


Tracey P. Lauriault wrote:

> Copyright Consultation / Consultations sur le droit d'auteur
> (July 20 until September 13, 2009)
> http://copyright.econsultation.ca/
>
> Funny that we never have such consultations on issues like
> homelessness, poverty, women, other social policy issues, humanities
> research funding going business, the dismantling of Canada's
> scientific institutions, archiving, and so on.  I wonder whom the
> "New" government is trying to mobilize for the next election.
>
> Do not get me wrong, I think this is great, and I think those who can
> should participate and contribute to this, but lets be critical about
> what is not being discussed, lets not get all excited about the
> feigning of participatory democracy by this government with this one
> and only consultation, and lets think why this is being discussed and
> whose interests are being served and whose issues are silent.
>
> Cheers
> Tracey

[Robert Tiessen]

My take on the reason why the government is having the copyright
consultation is the huge negative publicity that they received over Bill
C-61.  This is an issue which could effect their electablility.  They
don't feel the heat from those other issues in the same way.

Given that one of the issues in the Copyright Consultation is crown
copyright, I think there is significant room for members of this
discussion list to push the Federal Gvoernment to relinquish crown
copyright.



Rob Tiessen
Head, Access Services
University of Calgary Library
[hidden email]
403-220-6043



Tracey P. Lauriault wrote:

> Copyright Consultation / Consultations sur le droit d'auteur
> (July 20 until September 13, 2009)
> http://copyright.econsultation.ca/
>
> Funny that we never have such consultations on issues like
> homelessness, poverty, women, other social policy issues, humanities
> research funding going business, the dismantling of Canada's
> scientific institutions, archiving, and so on.  I wonder whom the
> "New" government is trying to mobilize for the next election.
>
> Do not get me wrong, I think this is great, and I think those who can
> should participate and contribute to this, but lets be critical about
> what is not being discussed, lets not get all excited about the
> feigning of participatory democracy by this government with this one
> and only consultation, and lets think why this is being discussed and
> whose interests are being served and whose issues are silent.
>
> Cheers
> Tracey
>  

[Heather Morrison]

Reasons for civicaccess people to participate:

If US - style anti-circumvention laws come into effect, this can  
legally lock down data that is legitimately open.  Just slap on a  
barrier, and breaking the barrier is illegal, even if you have every  
right to what is behind the barrier.

The Fair Copyright movement is one with much fundamentally in common  
with the open data movement, there is even a fair bit of overlap of  
the people involved.

For more info / how to help, one good source is Michael Geist's blog.

Any opinion expressed in this e-mail is that of the author alone, and  
does not represent the opinion or policy of BC Electronic Library  
Network or Simon Fraser University Library.

Heather Morrison
[hidden email]
Sent from my mobile device

On 2009-07-23, at 8:10 AM, "Tracey P. Lauriault" <[hidden email]>  
wrote:

> Copyright Consultation / Consultations sur le droit d'auteur
> (July 20 until September 13, 2009)
> http://copyright.econsultation.ca/
>
> Funny that we never have such consultations on issues like
> homelessness, poverty, women, other social policy issues, humanities
> research funding going business, the dismantling of Canada's
> scientific institutions, archiving, and so on.  I wonder whom the
> "New" government is trying to mobilize for the next election.
>
> Do not get me wrong, I think this is great, and I think those who can
> should participate and contribute to this, but lets be critical about
> what is not being discussed, lets not get all excited about the
> feigning of participatory democracy by this government with this one
> and only consultation, and lets think why this is being discussed and
> whose interests are being served and whose issues are silent.
>
> Cheers
> Tracey
> --
> Tracey P. Lauriault
> 613-234-2805
> https://gcrc.carleton.ca/confluence/display/GCRCWEB/Lauriault
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