Re: List Management: Re: [d@DCC] Future CBC "the docket" on digital copyright.

From: Kristofer Coward <kris _-at-_ melon.org>
To: General Discussion <discuss (at) digital-copyright.ca>
Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2003 13:17:20 -0500
References: <20030218235236.GB483@melon.org> <Pine.LNX.4.44.0302221037000.9609-100000@calcutta1.flora.ca>

On Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 10:43:45AM -0500, Russell McOrmond wrote:
> 
> (putting list manager hat on)
> 
> People,
> 
>   Can all of this be kept off the list in the future, as this is not 
> something that should be posted to any public forum (and especially not 
> this one).
> 
>   It is one thing to discuss how we may disagree with what the Canadian
> Copyright Act considers infringement, and whether
> non-commercial/non-profit infringement is a de minimus crime (and whether
> it is helpful to the copyright holder as a form of free advertising), but
> it is another thing to actively organize infringement on this forum.
> 
>   Deliberate and publicized infringement as a form of civil disobedience is
> one thing, but does this really quality?

I doubt it, but that's because I doubt that what's being arranged here
is really infringing. I'm inclined to believe that it's a perfectly
legal instance of time/space shifting that just happens to use mpeg and
the internet instead of VHS and hand-delivery. It's more of a public
demonstration of legitimate, non-infringing use of the technology
currently under scrutiny.

If anyone would care to offer a qualified legal opinion to the
contrary, I think I'd retract my request, as I have to agree that it
really isn't the best thought out act of civil disobedience.

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