Tracey P. Lauriault wrote:
> I am completely ignorant of the debates and contention on user rights.
> Can someone provide a simple explanation.
Quickest summary I have seen over the years:
"Creativity and innovation always builds on the past.
The past always tries to control the creativity that builds upon it.
Free societies enable the future by limiting this power of the past.
Ours is less and less a free society."
- Lawrence Lessig Keynote from OSCON 2002 -- online in a huge number
of forms.
CLUE is among the wide variety of Canadian groups calling for Canada
to adopt a living Fair Use right like the USA to replace our limited
Fair Dealings exception that currently exists in Canada.
http://www.cluecan.ca/policy/copyright--
Russell McOrmond, Internet Consultant: <
http://www.flora.ca/>
Please help us tell the Canadian Parliament to protect our property
rights as owners of Information Technology. Sign the petition!
http://www.digital-copyright.ca/petition/ict/ "The government, lobbied by legacy copyright holders and hardware
manufacturers, can pry my camcorder, computer, home theatre, or
portable media player from my cold dead hands!"
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Apr 18, 2007; 1:39am
