Re: [d@DCC] Are there "diff"s available for amendments?

From: Russell McOrmond <russell _-at-_ flora.ca>
To: "General Copyright Discussions \(questions, organizing, etc\)" <discuss (at) list.digital-copyright.ca>
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 08:37:49 -0500
References: <mailman.1.1201366801.20162.discuss@list.digital-copyright.ca> <cea8fb801a6eb.479dc13e@shaw.ca>

Chris Brand wrote:
> A good interface might be like the web view of a source code repository.

   I am wondering if software is the right first step, or trying to 
collect the data is a better first step.  I suspect the software will be 
the easiest part of this project.


   Publicly online we have the current copyright act, Bill C-60 (2005), 
some smaller bills (Libraries and Archives, etc), and Bill C-32 (1997). 
   We don't have Bill C-60 (1988) or many of the other relevant bills 
since 1921(or 1928, depending on whether you go by the bill date or the 
passing date) which is our first Canadian copyright act (Before that we 
were under the British act with confusing local amendments to deal with 
the copyright rogue south of us).


   Many of the changes were not changes due to a "Copyright" bill at 
all, but amendments from the FTA, WTO, NAFTA and related implementation 
bills.

   I'm going to update the Chronology soon with what I've learned in the 
past few months, just so people can get an idea of the scope of this 
project if we were to have a complete Copyright act.

BTW: There is an academic that sells this type of thing 
http://members.shaw.ca/compilerpress/products.htm .  I've been donated a 
copy (not for sharing, so don't bother asking!), and even before I saw 
this I knew that this type of thing is a massive project.  Making such 
information publicly available would be very worthwhile, and I'll lend 
any hand I can, but we're going to be doing ATIP requests, hanging 
around the Library of Parliament, scanning/OCRing and hand-fixing 
documents, and so-on.


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