Digital Copyright Canada

Hill Times journalists Abbas Rana, Simon Doyle and Harris MacLeod have assembled a list of 57 ridings in British Columbia, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Manitoba, Ontario, and Quebec, where the parties won or lost by a margin of about five per cent or less in the last federal election. This is a superset of what Michael Geist called the Copyright MPs which won their riding by 10 percent or less in the last election and their riding is home to a university.

There is now a first issue of This Week in Vancouver, intended to be the weekly newsletter of Vancouver Fair Copyright. It includes a link to their MP Meetings which describes what meetings have already happened.

From Andrea Goldsmith:

Music File-sharing: What is your position on the issue of file-sharing in Canada--should it be illegal?

;:Criminal law is a poor way to deal with file sharing and it is a poor way to deal with marijuana. Deliberate violations of copyright law in Canada should be treated as misdemeanors at most, but civil law suits are the best way to deal with any systematic exploitation of artists. Laws to protect artists must be just that, not laws to protect their agents or publishers or heirs necessarily, and the law must protect even more strongly against misleading or abusive contracts that are preventing artists from realizing gains from the art they've created.