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Alternatives to C-61, part II
Here’s the rest of that post: GOALS The goal of any legislation is to balance concerns of interested but competing parties, and to approach this balance, as much as possible, with a public interest bias. The concerns were these:
Alternatives to C-61: Statutory concerns for the protection and encouragement of creative works
I want to suggest an alternative paradigm to the statutory regime for creative works as intellectual property, a.k.a. copyright. I’m not going to get into detailed explanations of the existing Copyleft and other alternative paradigms to copyright. But I’m going … Continue reading
Posted in Information Technology, Intellectual Property
Tagged C-61, copyfight, copyleft, copyright, copyright reform, public domain, user rights
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Hedy Fry’s Copyright Balance
Honourable Member of Parliament Dr. Hedy Fry responded to Bill C-61 in a letter to constituent Chuck LeDuc Diaz, which he published on his blog. I respond to Dr. Fry’s letter. She is correct on certain critiques of the Bill, but misses a crucial point in her statement about balanced rights between creator and consumer. Continue reading
Posted in Intellectual Property, Privacy
Tagged C-61, Canadian DMCA, copyfight, copyright, copyright reform, DMCA, hedy fry
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The “Deliverance” of C-61 Begins
Costin’s Analysis of C-61 begins: This bill is not a brave surge forward into the 21st century for Canada, embracing the Information Age and showing the world that we lead in promoting innovation and civil liberties, that we have the wisdom to strike balance where others are stricken with fear, and that we anticipate rather than kowtow.
This bill is instead sycophantic obsequiousness to groups that should be politically and legally notwithstood according to any definition of Canadian sovereignty or democracy. Continue reading
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