[d@DCC] Re: Government response to Heritage Committee Interim

From: Chris Frey <cdfrey _-at-_ netdirect.ca>
To: General Copyright Discussions <discuss (at) list.digital-copyright.ca>
Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 17:01:55 -0500
References: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0503191355390.3127@calcutta.flora.ca>

On Sat, Mar 19, 2005 at 02:31:05PM -0500, Russell McOrmond wrote:
>   d) Professional photographers wanting to mess up amateur photography 
> (the majority of photography) and expectations for commissioned photographs 
> in order to dip their hands further into the lucrative stock-photo 
> marketplace will likely go through.  The number of times I heard policy 
> makers and politicians parrot the "give photographers same rights as other 
> creators" rhetoric from the special interest groups suggested to me that 
> very few understood this issue.  I know that it took me a while to "get 
> it" and I was spending a lot of time thinking about the various proposals 
> -- far more time than the parliamentarians had to spend.

Do you have a neat summary to help other people "get it" as well?

- Chris

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