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Bill C-61: Links to Useful Information
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by azer | June 20, 2008 at 07:36 pm
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Following are some links of interest to those who wish to study Bill C-61 and related issues. The lists below should be considered a work in-progress; the hope is that they will be expanded as time permits. The best way to make sure that this happens would be for you, the reader, to email your links and comments to: info at montrealfamily dot net.
Updated 2008-06-21: Many thanks to Dr. Michael Geist and Fair Copyright Canada for many of the links below.
The home page for the Government of Canada Copyright Reform Process is here. This page contains a number of links to additional information from Industry Canada including background information and FAQs. This page also contains links to the bill itself, which can be found at the Parliament of Canada web site. The document is available in various formats:
- View Bill C-61 in your browser. The link to the web version of the document is here.
- A copy of the document in PDF format can be found here. If you already have the Adobe Acrobat software installed on your computer, you can click the link and, after the file loads into your browser, click on the icon of the floppy disk to save the file to your hard disk.
There are many web pages of interest to serious students of this subject. Various groups and organizations have been involved for some time in matters related to copy rights. For the most part, these are American groups that have been involved in litigation related to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA,) which has been roundly criticized as a disaster for Fair Use rights in the United States. Following are a few links to web sites and published articles.
| Canadian Copyright Web Sites | ||||
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| Michael Geist.ca | Dr. Michael Geist | From the About page on the site: 'Dr. Michael Geist is a law professor at the University of Ottawa where he holds the Canada Research Chair of Internet and E-commerce Law.' | ||
| Fair Copyright For Canada.ca | Dr. Michael Geist | Another web site by Dr. Michael Geist of the University of Ottawa. This is the home site for many of the related Facebook groups. | ||
| Digital Copyright Canada | Russell McOrmond | Site contains a great deal of useful information. | ||
| Excess Copyright | Howard Knopf | Maintained by a gentleman who has been blogging about Intellectual Property and Copy Rights for at least two and a half years. |
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| Facebook.com | Dr. Michael Geist | Fair Copyright for Canada, a Facebook group. | ||
| Copyright For Canadians.ca | OnLine Rights.ca | A web site that helps people send their messages to Members of Parliament. | ||
| Canadian News Media Articles | ||||
| Site | Author | Date | Title / Comment | |
| Michael Geist.ca | Dr. Michael Geist | A Week in the Life of the Canadian DMCA: Specific examples of common activities and their consequences under the new law (if enacted.) | ||
| Appropriation Art | 2008-06 | 51st State - The Fight to Save Canada (A Comic book in PDF format!) Quote: "Canadian Artists find existing laws restrictive, and most assume that new legislation will only increase constraints." | ||
| CBC | Peter Nowak | 2008-06-19 | Canadians divided on copyright bill: survey This article also contains links to other news articles and related information. |
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| CBC | Peter Nowak | 2008-06-13 | Copyright bill protests surge online This article also contains links to other news articles and related information. |
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| Toronto Star | Giuseppina D'Agostino | 2008-06-19 | Not all sides are represented in debate on copyright bill | |
| Globe & Mail | 2008-06-17 | So what's in the new copyright bill? | ||
| Ottawa Citizen | 2008-06-19 | Questions about copying | ||
| Vancouver Sun | 2008-06-18 | 'Win-win' Copyright Act still has plenty of losers | ||
| Vancouver Sun | David Hogben | 2008-06-18 | Vanoc prepares for counterfeiters | |
| Vue Weekly | SCOTT HARRIS | 2008-06-19 | Digital locks, lack of consultation fuel anger at copyright bill | |
| Digital Arts | Rafael Ruffolo | 2008-06-18 | Copyright critics promote cause with comic book | |
| Appropriation Art | gduggan | 2008-06-12 | Appropriation Art Condemns Bill C-61 | |
| Angus Reid Strategies | 2008-06-19 | Angus Reid Poll: Canadians Evenly Split on Proposed Amendments to Copyright Act | ||
| YouTube.com | Fair Copyright | 2008-06-19 | Jim Prentice Tries To Defend The Canadian DMCA Bill C-61 | |
| Toronto Star | Michael McNamara, Chair, The Documentary Organization of Canada, Toronto |
2008-06-17 | Fodder for a good documentary (Letter to the Editor) | |
| Calgary Herald | Catherine Ford | 2008-06-20 | Copyright law would turn millions into criminals | |
| Langley Advance | Matthew Claxton | 2008-06-20 | Copyright bill makes us crooks | |
| The Leader-Post | Ron Petrie | 2008-06-19 | New law will make it hard to live in the past | |
| Michael Geist | Michael Geist | 2007-12-02 | The Canadian DMCA: What You Can Do | |
| The Expositor | 2008-06-17 | Big Brother eyes MP3 players | ||
| The Kingston Whig-Standard | 2008-06-18 | BIG BROTHER WILL BE WATCHING | ||
| The Daily News | 2008-06-18 | Government copyright bill not enforceable | ||
| The Ottawa Citizen | 2008-06-19 | Questions about copying | ||
| The Sun Times | 2008-06-18 | Is Big Brother getting a boost? | ||
| Prince George Citizen | Dave Paulson | 2008-0615 | Copyright law heavy-handed | |
| Songwriters Association of Canada | SAC Admin | 2008-06-17 | Response to the tabling of bill C-61 - A bill to amend the copyright act. | |
| Times Colonist | 2008-06-15 | Editorial: Made-in-America copyright law | ||
| DMCA Web Sites & Articles | ||||
| Site | Author | Date | Title / Comment | |
| US Copyright Office | United States Copyright Office web site. Contains complete copies of U.S. laws related to Copy Rights and Intellectual Property |
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| US Govt. Printing Office | 1998 | PDF Download of United States Digital Millenium Copyright Act of 1998. | ||
| EFF.org | The DMCA section of the The Electronic Frontier Foundation web site. Also contains links to information about Intellectual Property and Patent issues. |
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at 06:40 on June 21st, 2008
azer, thanks for putting this together. We can't just assume that this bill will just go away by itself, but must make it clear that our tools belong to us.
at 10:02 on June 21st, 2008
Thanks, Jordan - I think this is a great opportunity for young people to get involved in defending all our hard-won freedoms. The list above is a first step in my own attempt at educating myself.
By the way: I'm still finding great links from the Fair Copyright Canada group on Facebook - another update is not too far away.
All the best,
Take Care,
Sam.