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

[Russell McOrmond]

On Fri, 16 Apr 2004, Darryl Moore wrote:

> I think Neil should apply for some if this money and use it to improve 
> his P2P connections :-)

Looking at http://www.pch.gc.ca/pc-ch/pubs/2004/4_e.cfm#5  I see no 
reference to creation of TPM software


  "Objective

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."


  Have we fallen into a trap set by our political opponents to have read
this to mean "Digital Rights Management" to mean mean "TPM's restricting
an audiences ability to access the work"?

  If software can be seen as a "device", then so can a copyright license
with is also a functional creative work of the mind.  This could make the
Creative Commons and FLOSS copyright "code" into "Devices to Protect
Digital Rights".

  Getting funding to help iCommons Canada translate CC and FLOSS licenses 
to Canadian law, and promoting them, may be an ideal use of this fund.

http://www.cippic.ca/icommons-canada

  If Neil or others want to get together and send in a proposal, I am
interested.  A site that would promote "commons-based peer production" to
the creative community seems that it might qualify.  I already have the
peerproduction.ca and peerproduction.org domains which I planned on using
for this type of purpose (.org for advocacy work, .ca for commercial
work).

  I've never done proposal writing, so maybe we want to find someone with 
that background to lead on this.

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