Canada to Hold Public Hearings on Digital Copyright

Christopher Whitt writes: "It looks like the Canadian government is going to hold public hearings on the Copyright Act reform in progress. I responded to the Call for comments on the Consultation Paper On Digital Copyright Issues mentioned in a 2001-09-06 slashdot article. I received the notice below in my email this morning. I won't be able to make the hearings myself, so I hope some other Canadian readers can get out and make the fair use message heard!" Read on for the details from the notice.

February 19, 2002
NOTICE

As part of the ongoing consultative process to reform the Copyright Act, the departments of Industry and Canadian Heritage are planning cross-country consultations on the issues outlined in the Consultation Paper on Digital Issues published in June 2001. These full day consultation sessions will be held in the following cities on the following dates:

• Halifax on March 8, 2002;
• Vancouver on March 15, 2002;
• Montreal on March 21, 2002;
• Toronto on March 26, 2002;
• Ottawa on April 11, 2002.

Our intention is to present a forum for soliciting your views and concerns on the issues identified in the discussion paper and therefore your continued participation is important to the success of this round of copyright reform.

We will be sending you a formal invitation shortly which provides further details, along with relevant documentation.

We thank you very much for the time and interest which you are committing to our initiative and we look forward to meeting with you at these consultations."

Comments

Re:Does realy matter?

[douglask]

In my humble opinion, Chretien is not the real problem. The real problem in our current government is the near total lack of a functioning opposition. The other real problem is that Canada's newspaper and news media is largely owned by card carrying liberals. The last time a well known national reporter did an in depth investigative report that made the Chretien government look bad the reporter found himself looking for work. This reporter was published in papers across the country through the Southam news chain.

For all Americans out there, our situation is like this: 85% of all the seats in the house are republican and the president is republican as well. In addition, 85% or more of the news media is owned or controlled by card carrying republicans and the journalists are too scared to say anything for fear of losing their jobs.