[Cdn-DMCA] RE: Report from meeting with Heritage Canada, Tuesday March 19.

[Tom Trottier]

On Monday, March 25, 2002 at 16:14, Russell McOrmond <canada-dmca-
opponents at flora.org>
wrote re "Re: [Cdn-DMCA] RE: Report from meeting with Herit" saying:

> On Mon, 25 Mar 2002, Chris Brand wrote:
> 
> > From their perspective, the Public Domain is worthless because it
> > doesn't make Canadian industry any money, so arguments about how bad
> > it is to deplete it are a waste of time.
> 
>   This has always been false, and we need to start to clearly
>   articulate 
> this to cut against the considerable mis-education that the
> intellectual monopolists have been working at.  Please remember that
> we are ourselves part of the culture that "Hollywood" and others have
> created, and we have to re-learn things ourselves at times.
...
Perhaps we need to bring in a truckload of books of works now in the 
public domain - Shakespeare, Shaw, ... and tell them that if 
Shakespeare were protected by digital rights, he'd be inaccessible by 
2100, encased in obsolete media and devices without a way out.

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