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Canadian Copyright Reform
mikers writes: "The Government of Canada is looking for submissions into their public consultation process of Copyright reform. Up until September 15th, 2001, we Canadians can voice our opinions on two consultation papers - the first of which is titled "Consultation Paper on Digital Copyright Issues" - that will shape changes made to the Canadian Copyright Act in the years to come. "Industry Canada and the Department of Canadian Heritage are seeking comments regarding possible amendments to the Copyright Act with respect to the issues described in these two consultation documents... Subject to consent, all written submissions received will be posted on the two departments' websites ..." Now would be a good time to get your comments in and tell our government our views, or else risk letting "industry experts" and other non-geeks (Canadian RIAA) have the only say."
Yikes! My MP doesn't even know how to answer her own e-mail yet. This will be a *reach*. "Open Source...?"
:80 as a solution to dealing with Code Red II. Internet in education? Is this a new concept?
Seriously, under the current Liberal Government, as we merrily goose-step along with the Yanks, something like the DMCA is a definite possibility.
Get off our prosteriors, indeed!
By the way, the entire Government of Nunavut IT section has gone down a couple of times due to its slavish adoption of WinNT and the consequent exploits by various critters. The whole system government-wide, including the education side, runs on NT. Duh!! The latest snafu was when they shut the entire education side down for over a week to port