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No Creator Group Consensus on C-32
Last week I posted on an ACTRA document that identified consensus positions on C-32 among many creator groups. I have received a request to remove the link to the ACTRA document on the grounds that it was posted prematurely as it turns out there is not yet consensus among all […]
Against Bill C-32: Creator Groups Stake Out Strong Anti-Copyright Bill Position
Update 11/1: I have received a request to remove the link to the ACTRA document on the grounds that it was posted prematurely. I have been advised that there is not yet consensus among all groups listed in the document on the various C-32 issues.
When Canadian Heritage Minister James Moore told an IP conference last June that only two groups of radical extremists were opposed to Bill C-32, most assumed that he had user groups in mind. Yet as various groups begin to publicly make their positions known, few have been as critical as a creator coalition that includes ACTRA, a writers’ coalition, visual arts coalition, and Quebec artists groups. In a backgrounder on the bill, those groups oppose nearly all the major reform elements of Bill C-32, with the notable exception of digital locks (on which they remain silent).
Just how broad is the opposition? The position paper stakes out the following positions:
The Art of Selling Chocolate: Remarks on Copyright’s Domain
IP Osgoode posts on University of Toronto law professor Abraham Drassinower’s contribution to From “Radical Extremism” to “Balanced Copyright”: Canadian Copyright and the Digital Agenda his article The Art of Selling Chocolate: Remarks on Copyright’s Domain. The article features an exhaustive analysis of Justice Michel Bastrache’s opinion in the Euro-Excellence […]
Wire Report on Radical Extremism to Balanced Copyright Book
The Wire Report features a story, including a question and answer transcript of an interview with me, on From “Radical Extremism” to “Balanced Copyright”: Canadian Copyright and the Digital Agenda.
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