Conservative Huron-Bruce MP Ben Lobb. The good: encourages constituents to participate in the copyright consultation. The bad: sticks to the C-61 talking points as doesn't seem to realize that the bill was introduced in June 2008, not 2009 (and died on the order paper last September).
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Designing A Copyright Law That’s Built To Last
Appeared in the Toronto Star on August 17, 2009 as Designing a Copyright Bill That's Built To Last As the national copyright consultation launched earlier this summer hits the midway point, the first four weeks have attracted considerable interest. There have already been more than a thousand submissions, one town […]
CFHSS Issues Call for Copyright Action
The Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences (CFHSS) has issued a Call for Action on the current copyright consultation. The CFHSS, which made up of 69 scholarly associations, 75 universities and colleges and 7 affiliates, as well as more than 50,000 scholars, students and practitioners across Canada, focuses […]
Tracking the Copyright Consultation Submissions: July 31 – August 9, 2009
As promised, I will continue to update the key points found in the hundreds of submissions received by the government as part of the copyright consultation. The July 20 – 24th summary was posted here, July 25 – 30th here. This chart bring the data up to August 9th, though […]
Tracking the Copyright Consultation Submissions: July 31 – August 9, 2009
As promised, I will continue to update the key points found in the hundreds of submissions received by the government as part of the copyright consultation. The July 20 – 24th summary was posted here, July 25 – 30th here. This chart bring the data up to August 9th, though […]
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