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Transcripts for Vancouver and Calgary Copyright Consultations Posted Online

The Copyright Consultation website now features literal transcripts (and MP3 versions) of the first two roundtables held as part of the consultation.  The Vancouver roundtable included the following participants:

  • Richard Brownsey, British Columbia Film
  • Paul Whitney, Canadian Urban Library Council
  • Danielle Parr, Software Association of Canada
  • Mira Sundara Rajan, Canada Research Chair on Intellectual Property Law, UBC
  • Richard Rosenberg, BC Freedom of Information and Privacy Association
  • Niina Mitter, British Columbia Library Association Copyright Committee
  • Elizabeth Rains, British Columbia Association of Magazine Publishers
  • Mary Henricksen, Arts and Culture Branch, Province of British Columbia
  • Lisa Codd, British Columbia Museum’s Association
  • Charles Lazer, Writer’s Guild of Canada
  • Bill Henderson, Songwriters Association of Canada
  • Margot Patterson, Canadian Association of Broadcasters
  • Stephen Ellis, CFTPA
  • Goef Glass, Vancouver Fair Copyright
  • Ian Boyko, Canadian Federation of Students

With such a large list, there was little time for discussion or follow-up debates.  Each representative raised their concerns including fair dealing, DRM, crown copyright, and ISP issues.

The Calgary roundtable was smaller with only Industry Minister Clement in attendance along with the following participants:

  • Lee Webster, Canadian Chamber of Commerce
  • Catherine Campbell, Canadian Publishers Council
  • Peter Pilarski, Retail Council of Canada
  • Kay Shea, University of Calgary Students Union
  • Rob Thiessen, Canadian Library Association
  • Cynthia Rathwell, Shaw Communications
  • Gary Maavara, Corus Entertainment and the Canadian Association of Broadcasters
  • René Smid, Digital Alberta

4 Comments

  1. stacked
    Those lists are incredibly stacked with industry reps who support long copyrights, and most people do not in how they behave. The biggest stakeholders are the general public, and the majority of copyright “experts” can “go copyright themselves” as far as I’m concerned (present company excepted).

  2. stacked
    Those lists are incredibly stacked with industry reps who support long copyrights, and most people do not in how they behave. The biggest stakeholders are the general public, and the majority of copyright “experts” can “go copyright themselves” as far as I’m concerned (present company excepted).

  3. MP3?
    If the audio recordings are on that site, they’re well-hidden. Not that it’s a particularly well-designed page to begin with, but we’ll give them an A for effort.

  4. MP3
    Abattoir, go to http://copyright.econsultation.ca/topics-sujets/show-montrer/17 and click on “Listen to the round table” link.