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Canadian DMCA Won't Include Consumer Rights

Posted by Zonk on from the hard-not-to-respect-a-strong-lobby dept.

An anonymous reader writes "As protests mount over the Canadian DMCA, law professor Michael Geist is now reporting that the government plans to delay addressing fair use and consumer copyright concerns such as the blank media tax for years. While the U.S. copyright lobby gets their DMCA, consumers will get a panel to eventually consider possible changes to the law. Many Canadians are responding today with a mass phone-in to Industry Minister Jim Prentice to protest the policy plans."

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  1. Re:Vote with your wallet. by MicktheMech · · Score: 4, Interesting
    It's supposed to work that way, but it doesn't. If we want to reverse the course on something as far along as this is we need to
    1. Engage the media - get this to be a big topic in editorials, etc... get it in front of the general public's eyes
    2. Get access to the analysts that are proposing this type of policy in the first place. This is hard and requires people with access to the bureaucracy. People like the ones that the **AA have bought.

    I know that the EFF has some kind of presence up here, but we really need a Canadian group that can do the leg work in Ottawa. (As great as the EFF is, anything American based will be ignored.)
  2. Re:Sent to my MP, and the two ministers by Mr.+Flibble · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I hope you don't mind if I use the above as a template and send a similar message to my MP's as well.

    Snail mail of course.

    And all Canucks out there, if you mail a letter to an MP - it does not require postage. Just drop it in the mail, and it gets delivered.

    Where possible, choose snail mail over email, snail mail gets more attention.

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