Hamilton Chamber of Commerce Challenges National Chamber IP Approach |
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Thursday July 24, 2008
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As Copyright Watch recently chronicled, local Chambers of Commerce have been singing from the same songbook as Industry Minister Jim Prentice in letters to the editor on Bill C-61. This is consistent with the national Chamber, which earlier this year formed a new lobby group to push for copyright reform and issued a press release supporting the introduction of the copyright bill - complete with local quotes - within 90 minutes of the tabling of the bill. Notwithstanding these lobbying efforts, a crack in the coalition has emerged. At least one chamber of commerce has decided that it wants to look at the bill with an eye to the impact on small and medium sized businesses. The Hamilton Chamber of Commerce had adopted a resolution that it is hoping to get the Ontario and Canadian Chambers of Commerce to adopt seeking studies on the impact that IP legislation would have on SMEs. The concern is that SMEs would bear the burden of enforcement directed at businesses. The Hamilton chamber argues:
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Jorvay
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... Wow. As a long-time Hamiltonian, I didn't see this coming. Hopefully other Chambers will take note and follow suit. |
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Fair competition... Why the creators, the inventors get a monopoly of 20 years on their products? (patent) Why the cultural creators on the other hand get a monopoly of life + 75 years of the authors? In my mind, the new invention with a patent are far more useful to the society than the cultural creations... It's a bit unfair for the real creator to get a 20 years while seller of dreams and entertainment get 150 years. IMO the copyright should not be longer than 20 years. Industry should all stand on the same monopoly rules. After 20 years, the creations is public domain and is free for all to do what they want with it. That permits the society to evolve faster, because they get less restrictions to create new content. I.E. Walt Disney had made so much money of Public Domain good story, that it is unjust that those same creators extend the copyright for 150 years to unjustly punished the new content creators. Jourdespoir |
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UK plans Anyone read the UK latest, making parents responsible for illegal downloading by their kids? |
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... Our Canadian economy is heavily weighed on small to medium sized businesses. I’m glad that the HCC has decided to show some brains on this issue, something that should have happened with the business friendly Conservative Party and by Minister Prentice. How can the business community trust the Conservative Party or those responsible for Canadian Industry when it’s quite clear the questions with regards to the impact of Canadian Businesses and what impact this would have on them and our economy were not fully investigated, and the independent data bluntly ignored (all while the government had time to look into these issues)! I’m glad businesses are taking a very hard second look at this bill, and hope they all have a full understanding on all aspects of the copyright debate before opening their mouths in praise on a piece of legislation that will cost all Canadians dearly. I’m glad the business community in Hamilton has taken the first approach and actually looking at the issue and how it relates to them. In my opinion, more of this should have been done before offering unconditional support for C-61 minutes after release, which seems to be quite the “stupid” move on behalf of the business community. |
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Open Source for all Goverment Software Maybe it's time all software and file formats used by the Government will need to be open source? How about that - why should the Government continue to use software that favours one company over another? I wonder if the lobbyist would like open source for Goverment? |
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