Re: [d@DCC] C-36 thoughts

From: mskala _-at-_ ansuz.sooke.bc.ca
To: General Discussion <discuss (at) digital-copyright.ca>
Date: Sun, 25 May 2003 22:47:49 -0400 (EDT)

On Sun, 25 May 2003, farrellj wrote:
> 	Actually, as someone who has helped publish a Science Fiction
> Magazine (Northwords, later Northern Fusion), as well as program books for
> Science Fiction conventions for about 20 years, this requirement for all
> publications to send two copies to the National Archives has been in place
> as long as I have been involved with publishing.

Does it apply to Web sites?  C-36 looks like it's meant to, and that's
new.  I'm also aware of a lot of amateur and informal hardcopy
publications that do not send copies to any central authority.  Are they
all breaking the law?  It may be that the current regulations exempt
everyone except commercial publishers; but I'd rather have that in the Act
than in the regulations, and if we're revising the requirement at this
time, now might be a good time to make it a condition for copyright
protection, which would be a good thing to do.

Also, whether it's limited or made a condition for copyright or left
completely intact, I think it'd be really cool and totally in the spirit
of the legislation for the regulations to require that the two copies sent
to the central authority, must be TPM-free.
-- 
Matthew Skala
mskala@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca                    Embrace and defend.
http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/

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