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Canada's Conference Board Found Plagiarizing Copyright Report

Posted by timothy on from the no-no-we-got-it-from-the-internet dept.

An anonymous reader writes "There is a storm brewing in Canada as the prestigious Conference Board of Canada has been caught plagiarizing US copyright lobby group documents in a report on copyright reform. The report was funded by the Canadian copyright lobby as well as by the Ontario government. The Conference Board has acknowledged some errors, but stands by the report, while the Ontario government admits spending thousands of dollars and it now wants some answers."

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  1. Canadian Law by ShieldW0lf · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Laws against common assault are no longer being enforced by the police in my Canadian city. If you can't afford to pay the courts to charge them out of your own pocket, nothing will happen to your assailant. So, basically, the police are there to enforce your economic slavery. They are not there to protect you. Incidentally, they just hired 50 more of them here.

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    1. Re:Canadian Law by Cassini2 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

      The police won't file charge an assault easily. One of my friends went into diabetic shock, and crashed his car with his daughter in it. One of the locals thought he was drunk and punched him in the nose, and did quite a bit of damage. The local wanted to send a message about drunk driving with kids. The police wouldn't charge him for assault, because "one hit" could be self-defence.

      Also, if no witnesses are present, it can be really tough to prosecute an assault case.

      Lesson: if you want to cops to charge someone, show up with a textbook case in advance. The victim should be ready for that random surprise crime. Don't expect the cops to be able to prove it, after the fact.

      In fairness to the cops, with no witnesses, many crimes can be almost impossible to prove beyond a reasonable doubt. Most criminals are stupid, and repeat the same crime endlessly until the get caught. It wasn't the 10,000 examples of vandalism that got a local spray painter thrown in jail. It was the last attempt where the cops caught the vandal red handed.

  2. Re:Funny by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    hence the reason for pepsi throwback

    Natural Sugar FTW!!

  3. Re:Funny by Rene+S.+Hollan · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    What? No flamebait yet?

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