[d@DCC] Conservatives Aim to Sink Pirate Act

[Russell McOrmond]

Dear Bev Oda, Conservative critic for Canadian Heritage, 
     James Rajotte, Conservative critic for Industry,

Copy to Conservative members in Heritage and Industry committees,


  I wanted to send you an article I read about how conservatives in the
United States are getting informed and appropriately opposing the bills
promoting the special interests of old-media intermediaries like the
recording and motion picture industries.  As a software and new-media
creator I have long ago recognized that these incumbent special interests
not only do not represent the interests of creators, but are a far greater
threat to our right to create and distribute our works under our own terms
than any amount of copyright infringement.


http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/3435421
    WASHINGTON -- The American Conservative Union (ACU) accused Hollywood 
    of attempting to "shanghai" public policy for its own agenda as it
    urged Congress to reject a package of proposed new intellectual
    property laws.


  While Canadian proposals are not yet as bad as the ones we have seen in
the United States, they are headed in the same wrong direction.  The
recent Interim report from Heritage might as well have been written by a
narrow set of special interests: the recording industry and collective
societies representing supply-side intermediaries, and some institutional
users representing the demand-side.  None of these intermediaries
represent the interests of creators or the Canadian public, with copyright
intended to represent a balance of rights between these groups.

  My summary of the report can be seen here:
  http://www.digital-copyright.ca/node/view/550

  As a software creator/supporter/distributor, a long-time new media
creator and service provider (I co-own an independent ISP), amateur
photographer, technology law policy annalist, supporter of free market
economics, and as a Canadian citizen, I oppose every recommendation in
this interim report.

  I urge Industry committee to get more involved in copyright policy, as
the current reports from Heritage are not including a majority of the
constituencies that must be consulted.  I also urge you to talk to your
fellow Conservative MPs that are on the Heritage committee and urge them
to break the consensus that seems to exist there.  While it is great to
see unanimity between the parties represented in parliament, it is not so
great when they are all uniform in their support for a harmful legislative
direction.

  I would welcome the opportunity to speak to you about these issues.  I
live and work in Ottawa.

Thank you!

Russell McOrmond
Full contact information at http://www.flora.ca/#contact


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