[d at DCC] We are still accepting petition signatures, and please send letters to your MP!

[Frédéric Bastien]

Thanks.

I'm a student in computer science at the university of montréal. I'm the 
secretary of the student association. I was wanting to make the petition 
circulate in our departement. Our departement is French.

You tell that the french version need approuval? When it will be done? 
Can I use the current version?

It is much better for me to use a French version as this is the first 
langage of the majority of people in our departement.

thanks

Frédéric Bastien

Russell McOrmond wrote:
> Frédéric Bastien wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Is the petition still ongoing? On the web site main page, the story 
>> about the petition is from april.
> 
> 
>    We have two ongoing petitions 
> http://www.digital-copyright.ca/petition/  , and an active letter 
> writing campaign.
> 
> Here are some statistics:
> 
> 
> Total collected (Counted as of August 14, 2006) for the Users' Rights 
> petition: 2461  .  We are very close to 2500, which is 100 times the 
> minimum of 25 signatures to have it tabled in parliament.  When we 
> started we were told that we would have a hard time getting our 25 for 
> an issue as messy and misunderstood as copyright.
> 
> Total collected (Counted as of Aug 14, 2006) for Information Technology 
> property rights: 31
>    We still have to approve the French translation, but English 
> Canadians and residents should be collecting signatures for the English 
> version.
> 
> 
> Letter writing campaigns:
> 
> First letter (during election campaign): 89
> Second letter (current on front page): 62
> 
> 
> Note: I've increased the date on that static article to September 26 @ 
> 14:00 (the time that parliament returns) so that it will seem better 
> than current.  We don't stop collecting petition signatures until the 
> government stops trying to erode our user rights (copyright) and 
> property rights (information technology), or until every Canadian has 
> signed the petitions (There are new Canadians born or immigrating every 
> day!)
> 
> 
> I also expect we'll have future petitions to protect other related 
> rights: authors rights to author compatible software (copyright balance 
> -- likely via CLUEcan.ca) and property rights (owners of the media that 
> content is stored on).
> 
> 
>    Why those 4?  See:  Protecting property rights in a digital world
> http://www.flora.ca/documents/digital-ownership.html
> 
> 
> 
> Thank you for asking!
>