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

From: "Chris Brand" <Chris_Brand _-at-_ spectrumsignal.com>
To: "General Discussion" <discuss (at) digital-copyright.ca>
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 09:45:30 -0800

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

Good stuff. I'll have to get my wife to tape it 'cos I'll be
travelling to Whitehorse.

Good luck - I expect it will be quite a challenge.

See if you can point out that Copyright law only expanded to
include reproduction because reproduction was expensive
enough that it was only reasonable to reproduce a work in order 
to publish it (which was covered by Copyright). A very
different world to the one we now find ourselves in.

Incidentally, in my conversations with co-workers and the like,
I find that very few people have any idea how long Copyright lasts.
Most expect it to be 10 or 20 years and are *very* surprised to
find that it lasts beyond the creators death.

Chris
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