[d@DCC] The Bitch Is Back

[Darryl Moore]

Why don't you alert the CBC? They'd like a wacky story like this, and
that in turn would be sure to get the attention of the Senate.

Of course they might be too busy chasing scandals <sigh>

Russell McOrmond wrote:

> On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, Ian Goldberg wrote:
> 
> 
>>So those works which entered the public domain on Jan 1 of this year
>>may very well fall back into copyright soon.  Wacky.
> 
> 
>   Would be interesting to see that tested in court -- I suspect if an 
> infringement claim is made in relation to any of this that the relevant 
> section of the act will get tossed.
> 
> IANAL/TINLA
> 
>   I did send a note earlier this week to Deputy Leader of the Government 
> in the House of Commons, Mauril Bélanger (who was my past MP and who I 
> have spoken to in person many times).  It is likely that this was a 
> procedural issue that any bills passed in the previous session but not 
> passed through the senate were just automatically brought in without 
> checking if there were any time sensitive components.
> 
>   It may be that the Senate needs to be contacted to ensure that they 
> don't pass this without amendments or sending back to the house with 
> amendments to remove section 21 of C-8.
> 
>   Anyone have connections in the Senate that they would be willing to use 
> to ensure the message gets there in case nobody is paying close enough 
> attention to section 21?
> 
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>  Perspective of a digital copyright reformer on Sheila Copps, MP.
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