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

[Tom Trottier]

Or if all roads and streets and waterways were toll roads - with 
different collectors.

Tom

On Tuesday, March 26, 2002 at 17:14, Kristofer Coward <canada-dmca-
opponents at flora.org>
wrote re "Re: [Cdn-DMCA] RE: Report from meeting with Herit" saying:

> On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 04:14:20PM -0500, Russell McOrmond wrote:
> >   The argument in favor of investment in the commons have traditionally
> > been easy to make to justify investment in transportation technologies to
> > aid economic progress.  It needs to be understood that, in a
> > post-industrial economy, the much more critical common-infrastructure will
> > be Information and Communications Technology (ICT).
> 
> I can see a good analogy coming out of this point - just trying to
> imagine how seriously industry would ahve been stifled if there was no
> public property, and companies exchanging parts either ha to be next to
> each other, or try to get permission from all the landowners in between
> to ship their goods. (from what I can tell, some publishing already
> involves considerable rights-chasing which compares pretty easily with
> this speculative right-of-way-chasing)
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