[d@DCC] Berne

[Wallace J.McLean]

----- Original Message -----
From: Russell McOrmond <russell at flora.ca>
Date: Tuesday, November 2, 2004 11:47 am
Subject: Re: [d at DCC] Berne

>  The suggestion that these things cannot be changed because of Berne 
is
> to suggest that the issue that brought many of us here (anti-DMCA 
> work)can never happen because of Berne.  The fact is that 
> copyright law both
> domestically and internationally is a moving target, and saying "not 
gonna
> happen" reads to me only as a way to discourage public participation 
in
> policy reform.

No, it serves to encourage REALISTIC public participation.

Canada alone can't change Berne.

Yes, Berne has been amended... always in the direction of longer, 
stronger, copyright. You want to reopen Berne? Be careful what you wish 
for. The Disney Party would lobby hard to make the Disney standards of 
copyright the new international norm. This is, in fact, their obvious 
strategy: get enough countries to adopt Disney-type copyright terms and 
standards that a new international "normal" is set, and a new 
international treaty, in line with those statutes, is foisted upon the 
holdout countries.



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