Digital Copyright Canada

On October 1'st I was invited by the Waterloo Public Interest Research Group (WPIRG) and the Waterloo Students for the Information Commons (WSIC) to the University of Waterloo to give a talk on Copyright and Bill C-61. The outline for this message is the same as for the talk: some copyright history, what has recently changed, what would be a good policy response, and what has the actual response been. I'll then end talking about the current federal general election.

The slides and recording of the talk are available online.

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Lindsay Stewart wrote a letter to her member of parliament for Kitchener Centre talking about copyright issues.

During the last Federal election you knocked on my door in the Victoria School Village. You were gracious enough to engage me in a discussion of several issues. One area of concern I had was with copyright reform.
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This BLOG posting by a "singer, songwriter, recording artist, actor, writer, doodler and waiter" documents a conversation they had with an incumbent Liberal candidate that came knocking on their door. It also included discussion of the Sam Bulte scandal.

From: Karol Vesely

;:Dear Friends,

;:I am an expert in Health Care and I can answer all questions about health issues, but I am not an expert in Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest relations. I can only read to you what is part of GP policy on Science and Technology.

;:* Require federal department and agencies to transition to open source orree software for general application and provide free technical support to Canadian companies who use this software,

;:* Shorten the length of software patents to seven years, to reflect software's faster business cycle,