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

[Russell McOrmond]

Simon Valiquette wrote:
>    Maybe we could use http://www.digital-copyright.ca/petition/ as a 
> kind of main page linking to all the petitions, and also contain other 
> information not related to any specific petition.

   I agree, and will do this.   I hope that there will be more 
petitions, given I really would like to have at least 4 at one point to 
emphasize the "4 possible owners" implicated in current digital 
copyright revision policy.


   We want to ensure that everyone signs the first one, as it is the one 
that will best define the size of our community.   The other petitions 
may have much fewer signatures and are being used to ensure that these 
issues are adequately documented in the Hansard/etc for members of 
parliament.

   We need to ensure that we table at least one batch of each petition 
with each session of parliament, so that we show up in each index.  We 
have a batch of the "Petition for Users' Rights" with Timmins--James Bay 
MP Charlie Angus who will table them when the house sits again, and I 
hope to find an MP to table a batch of "Petition to protect Information 
Technology property rights" soon for the next session.  This will be the 
first batch for this new petition, and we should probably have press 
releases and other things ready for that event.

-- 
  Russell McOrmond, Internet Consultant: <http://www.flora.ca/>
  Please help us tell the Canadian Parliament to protect our property
  rights as owners of Information Technology. Sign the petition!
  http://www.digital-copyright.ca/petition/ict/

  "The government, lobbied by legacy copyright holders and hardware
   manufacturers, can pry my camcorder, computer, home theatre, or
   portable media player from my cold dead hands!"