[d@DCC] FEEDBACK:Copyright lobbyists strike again

[Russell McOrmond]

In reply to: http://news.com.com/2010-1071_3-5811025.html

   Your article suggested that Canada didn't sign onto the laundered policy 
from the 1995 Lehman report (USPTO's participation in NII) that became the 
1996 WIPO copyright and phonograms treaties.  Canadian foreign policy 
bureaucrats did sign, but Canada has not yet ratified.

   Better lists to link to than the PDF
WCT:  http://www.wipo.int/treaties/en/ShowResults.jsp?lang=en&treaty_id=16
WPPT: http://www.wipo.int/treaties/en/ShowResults.jsp?lang=en&treaty_id=20

   Bill C-60 is at first reading in Canadian parliament, and is intended to 
ratify those treaties. It also adds in many more goodies for that small 
number of special economic interests that these backward-facing policies 
benefit.

   We have a website to try to KillBillC60.ca

   This site is part of a Canadian online forum for those who wish to 
organize.  We have an on-paper petition that we are presenting to 
parliament, and using as a tool to educate the public about the extremists 
who are trying to take away our rights in order to protect specific 
outdated business models.  The petition is at 
digital-copyright.ca/petition and we currently have over two thousand 
signatures, hoping to have many more by the time the Canadian parliament 
returns in the fall.

   Canada also already has pure software patents.  This was not a change in 
the law or an interpretation by the courts, but a stealth change in the 
Manual of Patent Office Practices (MOPOP) at the Canadian Intellectual 
Property Office (CIPO).  When I did an Access to Information request 
flora.ca/A246 I found that it was only pro-patent extremists such as 
patent lawyers and IBM that were consulted.


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  Russell McOrmond, Internet Consultant: <http://www.flora.ca/>
  2066+ Canadians oppose Bill C-60 which protects antiquated Recording,
  Motion Picture and "software manufacturing" industries from change...
  http://KillBillC60.ca    Sign--> http://digital-copyright.ca/petition/