Comments on: Open Letter Re: Canada’s New Copyright Bill

By: Glenn McKnight

Glenn McKnight — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 15:08:58 +0000

Thank you for the letter and your position

I have posted and emailed my own letter today

Thanks for the good work
Glenn

By: Robert Moody

Robert Moody — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 05:12:20 +0000

I took the time to write the Canadian parliament as suggested in the blog. Did you? Please do. Someone sitting at a computer who is responsible for the e-mail that arrives there sees it all. It may just be a few people and ignored, but if you take the couple of minutes it requires to send it and forget about, it may become thousands and, in turn, make a real point.

Obviously, from what we can read in the points made from this letter, the bill is way off-base. Let’s not just be the quiet reader who never does anything or who talks a lot of trash behind the safety of a computer monitor. Go right now, take a little step and send a quick e-mail telling them that you support this letter denouncing the bill.

:-)

By: Kevin

Kevin — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 14:27:28 +0000

To Misquote Larry’s post:
What would this Nation be, but a Nation of stutterers without Shakespeare , Mozart , Gutenberg , Piccasso , Dr. Martin Luther King and Albert Gore, to name a few on the tip of my mind?

Nation read Canada

By: larry cloyd

larry cloyd — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 13:49:32 +0000

Don’t complicate the efforts of world democracy! Make all written works that are free from copy-right limits available to all. What would this world be but a world of stutterers without Shakespeare , Mozart , Gutenberg , Piccasso , Dr. Martin Luther King and Albert Gore, to name a few on the tip of my mind?

By: Scott In Tennessee

Scott In Tennessee — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:09:49 +0000

When I first read the outline of the law I just thought I misunderstood it. Upon rereading it and reading comments such as this site’s, I see I understood it from the first. It is the law that didn’t make since, not my reading of it. Can it be that these people are ignorant of what they are proposing or do they really want to stop education, information, history, and even harmless entertainment from reaching the masses and make criminals of people that help everyone from school children to the blind? That would be unpardonable and a step back into the dark ages. I am not familiar with Canada’s system of law, but surely what they propose would be struck down in the courts. Just one aspect of it would be locking the past or making public domain material your own personal property and removing it from the masses. Would we next be required to burn the books in the library to see that they aren’t read?

By: Andrei

Andrei — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 14:45:17 +0000

This bill is a mess. It contradicts it’s self and if passed will give content publishers too much power.
In my understanding, by placing a (C) copyright on an article or even a comment (much like this one) the replication of this post becomes a violation, punishable by law with a fine of up to $500. Even more disturbing is the fact that by posting my comment, the website could pottentially be liable for distributing copyrighted materials.

Just my 2 cents.

By: Eunah Choi

Eunah Choi — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 16:10:53 +0000

This C61 bill is, I think, just plain nonsense.
What I think the most absurd part of it is that it has the possibility to prevent citizens from accessing public domain works.
I am not a Canadian nor do I know about the copyright law thoroughly, but I voice my opposition to this ridiculous law!