[d@DCC] Canadian Government funding DRM with Tax Dollars

[Neil Leyton]

Money? Where? Yes please!
; )
N.
PS - Unfortunately the OMDC turned down our last label initiative for a 
grant... I guess they didn't like the CC approach...

Darryl Moore wrote:

> I think Neil should apply for some if this money and use it to improve 
> his P2P connections :-)
>
> On 2004-04-16 3:59 PM, Seth Johnson wrote:
>
>> -------- Original Message --------
>> Subject: [BoingBoing-mailblog]Canadian government funding DRM with
>> tax-dollars
>> Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 15:54:02 -0400
>> From: Cory Doctorow <doctorow at craphound.com>
>> To: boingboing-mailblog at flarn.com
>>
>> Canadian government funding DRM with tax-dollars
>>
>> The Canadian government is <em>giving away tax-dollars</em> to fund the
>> creation of <em>digital rights management</em> software. I think I'm 
>> going
>> to throw up. Or go on tax strike. The idea that the Canadian 
>> government is
>> going to spend <em>my</em> arts-career-earned dollars on doomed
>> techno-snake-oil whose only use is to frustrate posterity, steal the
>> public's rights in copyright, and justify the existence of stunningly 
>> evil
>> anti-circumvention laws -- Christ, it makes me want to spit.
>>
>> <blockquote>
>> To assist in the development and implementation of online, copyright
>> management and licensing systems and mechanisms that facilitate 
>> access to
>> and the exploitation of one or all types of existing or copyrighted 
>> works,
>> in particular Canadian, including works where multiple ownership
>> arrangements exist, preferably through the development of a 
>> single-window
>> model.
>> </blockquote>
>>
>>> http://www.pch.gc.ca/pc-ch/pubs/2004/4_e.cfm#5
>>
>>
>>
>> (<i>Thanks, <a 
>> href="http://copyrightcanada.blogspot.com/">Damien</a>!</i>)
>>
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