[d@DCC] Future CBC "the docket" on digital copyright.

From: Russell McOrmond <russell _-at-_ flora.ca>
To: General Copyright Discussions <discuss (at) digital-copyright.ca>
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 13:07:55 -0500 (EST)

  Tomorrow afternoon I will taped in a debate on CBC's "The Docket".

  http://cbc.ca/thedocket/

  The program outline is at: http://cbc.ca/thedocket/coming_up.html#1

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Copyright

Lesley Ellen Harris is a copyright lawyer on a crusade. She's trying to 
teach people how to stay on the right side of copyright laws. Harris isn't 
alone. Software is being developed that could keep tabs on what we do on 
our home computers. It's like private investigators -- online. Think 
copyright law is boring and doesn't apply to you? Think again.

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  A small documentary will be aired, and then Host/Producer Lisa Taylor 
will have 3 guests in the studio to discuss the documentary.

Allison Outhit - Vice President, Television and Business Affairs,
  Collideascope Digital Productions Inc.

David Basskin - Canadian Musical Reproduction Rights Agency www.cmrra.ca , 
  and also spokesperson for the CPCC

Myself (Internet Consultant, non-lawyer but informed citizen on Copyright,
and outnumbered by the extremist-copyright representatives ;-)


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  "David Basskin is quite possibly Canada's first and foremost authority 
   on protecting the reproduction rights of your music."

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http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1039573025357_1/

  "They're all out there making substantial amounts of money selling 
  products that are designed from the ground up to copy our music," David 
  Basskin, the director of CPCC, told CTV News Online.
  ... 
  Basskin said the CPCC appealed for a levy increase after marketplace 
  surveys showed more people than ever are copying music. According to 
  music industry estimates, about 50 per cent of the nearly 100 million
  blank CDs bought are used for copying music.

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  Born in Halifax and raised in Alberta and Europe, Allison returned home
  to earn an undergraduate degree in history and languages. Over the 
  years, Allison has studied English, French, German, Spanish, Italian,
  Latin, Greek, Russian, and Anglo-Saxon.  Nowadays she's officially
  bilingual, but she can order a drink in the other seven.

  Allison worked for several years in radio, print journalism and arts 
  management while she sidelined as an audio technician, songwriter and 
  musician.  Graduating from Dalhousie Law School in 1994, Allison chose 
  to forego practicing law in favour of rock and roll, supporting her
  expensive recording and touring habit by taking contract work in film 
  and television production.  Eventually, Allison fetched up at Salter
  Street Films, where she acted as Director of Business Affairs for
  international distribution and contributed to several productions
  including day-to-day show running of 24 episodes of the science fiction 
  UK co-production Lexx, now seen in over 100 countries worldwide.

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 Russell McOrmond, Internet Consultant: <http://www.flora.ca/>
 Any 'hardware assist' for communications, whether it be eye-glasses, 
 VCR's, or personal computers, must be under the control of the citizen 
 and not a third party.   -- http://www.flora.ca/russell/

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