[d@DCC] Canada's NDP leader endorses P2P

[Jason Young]

http://www.boingboing.net/2004/04/09/canadas_ndp_leader_e.html

Friday, April 9, 2004

Canada's NDP leader endorses P2P

Jack Layton is the leader of the NDP, Canada's left-wing New Democratic
Party, and is in the running for Prime Minister of Canada in the next
election. On the heels of Canada's landmark court decision that essentially
legalized file sharing, Layton has turned P2P into an election issue,
endorsing file-sharing as a beneficial activity, a gutsy move, considering
the Party's close ties with the arts (the NDP has traditionally endorsed
strong arts-spending):

"I'm a holder of a copyright myself. But it's a book on homelessness and I
don't mind if anyone wants to copy it," he says with a grin. "I'm still not
so sure how (file sharing) impacts sales -- some studies even say it
enhances them. I don't think the dust has settled on this yet. When I was at
university there was a great fear that photocopying was going to destroy the
publishing industry and that hasn't happened. It's sometimes best to muddle
along, take things one step at a time and see what happens. Society can have
a way of sorting things out."

Link
http://action.web.ca/home/ndpnpd/en_ndpinthenews.shtml?sh_itm=a54fcc8b3a3f78
96bbdbc9dda048908c&AA_EX_Session=7491c7dfec8d43fb8df25c33106e7b2f

(Thanks, Simon!)
posted by Cory Doctorow at 11:40:49 AM

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