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From: Russell McOrmond <russell _-at-_ flora.ca>
To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?B=E9langer=2C_Mauril_-_M=2EP=2E?= <Belanger.M (at) parl.gc.ca>
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 16:11:45 -0400 (EDT)

I am a constituent of Mauril Bélanger.  I am copying this to the
http://www.digital-copyright.ca/ forum for archival purposes.


From http://www.decima.com/publishing/members/check.asp?UPMAG=CNM&ID=030617
(I am a subscriber -- not sure if your office is)

...cut - only copying parts about Mr. Bélanger, as I do not have 
permission to repost entire article...

    The government faced opposition from its own members to adopting the 
    measure as Mauril Bélanger stood firm to his position that an Act
    merging the National Library and National Archives was an 
    inappropriate vehicle to change copyright law.

    Bélanger and other members, including Tory Gary Schellenberger, argued 
    that their attendance was predicated on an unwritten agreement that 
    the copyright term extensions would be dropped from the legislation.
    Allard confirmed that she had indicated as much to both members.

...big cut...

    Bélanger gave a preview of raucous times ahead as he told the 
    committee that he would oppose the measures in the House of Commons. 
    He summarized his feelings about the day after the meeting, telling
    Canadian New Media, "You don't amend the Copyright Act on the fly. You
    have to amend it in a comprehensive way, which is not what this
    committee just did."


  I sent a letter to Canadian Heritage committee members about a relevant
article earlier today, with this letter published online at:
http://www.digital-copyright.ca/discuss/1936

 The dead poets society: The copyright term and the public domain by 
 Matthew Rimmer
 http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue8_6/rimmer/index.html

  If during the summer you wanted to get together and talk about Copyright
policy with a constituent that is very interested in this area of policy,
you have all my contact information handy.  I look forward to the possible
future meetings on this topic.

---
 Russell McOrmond, Internet Consultant: <http://www.flora.ca/> 
 Governance software that controls ICT, automates government policy, or
 electronically counts votes, shouldn't be bought any more than 
 politicians should be bought.  -- http://www.flora.ca/russell/

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