Musician Lobby Terms Balanced Copyright "Disgusting"

An anonymous reader writes "While most of the attention at Thursday's Canadian copyright town hall was on the recording industry's strategy to pack the room and exclude alternate voices, the most controversial activity took place outside the hall. It has now been revealed that security guards threatened students and a Member of Parliament for distributing leaflets, and the American Federation of Musicians termed the MP's leaflet, which called for balanced copyright, 'disgusting' and demanded a retraction and apology. At this point, such an admission seems unlikely."

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[ericfitz]

Bad example. Comparing infant mortality rates between countries is not an apples-to-apples comparison; making such an assumption inaccurately assumes that we count the same way. We don't. In fact the way we count guarantees that we will have among the highest counts.
http://health.usnews.com/usnews/health/articles/060924/2healy.htm

Infant mortality numbers do not indicate that the US health care system is in any way inferior to anyone else'. There may be compelling arguments to support such a proposition, but infant mortality is not one of them.

BTW why are we discussing this in a copyright thread?