Comments on: Geist on Canadian Copyright http://www.slaw.ca/2006/01/04/geist-on-canadian-copyright/ Canada's online legal magazine Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:12:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Russell McOrmond http://www.slaw.ca/2006/01/04/geist-on-canadian-copyright/comment-page-1/#comment-411 Russell McOrmond Sun, 08 Jan 2006 14:51:40 +0000 http://www.slaw.ca/2006/01/04/geist-on-canadian-copyright/#comment-411 We are our own media, and are slowly replacing the mainstream media. We have a specific BLOG topic for Parkdale--High Park: http://www.digital-copyright.ca/edid/35068 I hope people will get actively involved in the politics of this area of policy. There really are more of us than there are of "them". Please sign our petition, talk to your candidates to convince them to take the "copyright pledge", talk to them to ensure that they realize that the intermediaries (CRIA, CAAST, CMPDA) do not represent Canadian creators. We are our own media, and are slowly replacing the mainstream media.

We have a specific BLOG topic for Parkdale–High Park: http://www.digital-copyright.ca/edid/35068

I hope people will get actively involved in the politics of this area of policy. There really are more of us than there are of "them". Please sign our petition, talk to your candidates to convince them to take the "copyright pledge", talk to them to ensure that they realize that the intermediaries (CRIA, CAAST, CMPDA) do not represent Canadian creators.

]]> By: Saskboy http://www.slaw.ca/2006/01/04/geist-on-canadian-copyright/comment-page-1/#comment-397 Saskboy Thu, 05 Jan 2006 05:37:13 +0000 http://www.slaw.ca/2006/01/04/geist-on-canadian-copyright/#comment-397 It's too bad Slashdot is unlikely to pick this story up, as is the main stream media. It's not surprising they ignore things like this, even though they are technically still legal to donate lots of money to a candidate. Last week the National Post spun a headline into the obscenely wrong by claiming that 68% of Canadians want tougher copyright law, when the CRIA poll was only able to coax 32% to say that, with 91% wanting artists work to be protected onilne. It's too bad Slashdot is unlikely to pick this story up, as is the main stream media. It's not surprising they ignore things like this, even though they are technically still legal to donate lots of money to a candidate. Last week the National Post spun a headline into the obscenely wrong by claiming that 68% of Canadians want tougher copyright law, when the CRIA poll was only able to coax 32% to say that, with 91% wanting artists work to be protected onilne.

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