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

[Chris Palmer]

The main problem with Industry Canada is convincing them that you can make
money with open source software.  Giving things away for free doesn't quite
make sense to them...


----- Original Message -----
From: "Russell McOrmond" <russell at flora.ca>
To: "No DMCA in Canada" <canada-dmca-opponents at flora.org>
Sent: March 26, 2002 8:56 AM
Subject: Re: [Cdn-DMCA] RE: Report from meeting with Heritage Canada,
Tuesday March 19.


>
>
> On Mon, 25 Mar 2002, Tom Trottier wrote:
>
> > ...
> > 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.
>
>
>   It is my understanding that Heritage "gets this".  They may not speak in
> terms of protecting the commons as most government has been re-engineered
> to react primarily to business language, but I don't believe there is a
> problem there.
>
>   In the case of Industry it is a matter of convincing them that
> public-domain and otherwise shared (Open Source where Moral Rights are
> retained, but economic monopoly privileges are released) information is
> that basic infrastructure that will mean as much to the next economy as
> transportation infrastructure meant to the old economy.
>
>   The duel/dual nature of Copyright between Heritage and Industry will
> probably require different approaches to each.
>
>
>
>
>
> By the way:
>
>   I would like to thank everyone who is participating in these
> discussions. Bouncing off ideas between each other has allowed us to come
> up with some pretty good stuff that I don't think anyone could have
> thought of alone.  If I compare my thoughts on copyright last August when
> this forum was started and now it is quite different.  It has been a huge
> learning experience.
>
>   I do hope we'll grow from here possibly to create our own association so
> that we can further share resources when discussing Open Source/etc with
> government.
>
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