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B.C. Government Uses Copyright To Block Access to Information |
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Tuesday April 08, 2008
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The Vancouver Sun reports on how the B.C. government is using crown copyright to constrain the publication of documents released under freedom of information legislation.
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Fair Use? The fact that the BC gov't would even do that is a gross misrepresentation of the intent of copyright (to protect authors from knock-offs and plagiarism). Further, the transparency of this attempt at censorship under the guise of adhering to the FOI is galling. I hope somebody gets canned over this, though I doubt it. I wonder though, and perhaps this is a leading question, does BC/Canada not have fair use provisions that would cover publication in the press for purposes of criticisms and/or reporting? |
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Private government? It boggles the mind how any government publication could be copyright protected in the first place. Isn't the government publicly funded? Maybe not. |