Russell McOrmond is reporting on digital-copyright.ca the speech by Hedy Fry (MP, Vancouver Centre) on copyright reform at the Heritage Comittee.

I read the first paragraph and stopped there.

I think we have heard repeatedly on this committee that one of the greatest challenges to copyright is the advent of digital media, and that this in fact seems totally insurmountable and uncontrollable because people are downloading intellectual property of creators and artists on iPods and everything they can. That has left us with a huge copyright vacuum.

These comments are akin to saying “Everybody has access to water, so we need to restrict access to water by privatizing it”.

Une lettre que j’ai posté au groupe Facebook “Fair Copyright Canada - chapitre d’Ottawa” expliquant ma position sur la réforme des droits d’auteurs pour cet ère numérique”

I’ve posted this letter to the Fair Copyright Canada Ottawa Facebook group.

Bonjour,

I am a candidate to nominations for the Green Party of Canada in Ottawa-Vanier. I am an open source software advocate with a B.A.Sc. Software Engineering. If you wish to have a candidate in the next federal election in Ottawa that will strongly advocate for fair copyright reform and free culture, I encourage you to come at the nomination on March 3rd (coordinates below) and vote for me. The other candidate(s) to this nomination are not familiar with copyright policy.

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