[Discuss] Stiffling debate on the new copyright law

George Farris farrisg at shaw.ca
Tue Dec 4 14:33:30 PST 2007


On Tue, 2007-12-04 at 00:13 -0800, Corey Burger wrote:
> As has been discussed on this before, Canada looks set to pass a new
> copyright law similar to the US DMCA. However, as has been pointed
> out, absolutely no concrete information is available to the public.
> Given the Industry Ministers recent refusal to go on a CBC program,
> Search Engine, to take listeners commenters, I can only conclude that
> the Conservative gov't has concluded that a large public debate would
> generate so much negative publicity to kill the bill. This is very
> dangerous. Michael Geist has a great blog post [1], about who to
> contact about the upcoming law and to express what you feel should be
> in it.
> 
> [1] http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/2431/125/
> 

You can use this to create a point and click letter to email, I am also
printing a hard copy and snail mailing it off to my MP.

http://www.onlinerights.ca/get_active/copyright_reform_action/






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