copyright consultation Toronto "town hall" starts in a few minutes

[Darryl Moore]

I was there. While the music industry succeeded wonderfully in stacking
the deck, I would not say it was "so-over-the-top". The message the
government was hearing there was the same message they were getting at
many of the round tables, and at their closed door consultations with
CRIA and the like. This "town hall" served well to reinforce that message.

That in turn means it is ever more important to get a submission into
the econsultation website. There are over 3000 submissions to date, most
of them asking for fairer copyright. The only way these submissions will
carry enough weight to counter the influence of the recording industry
will be if there are at least 3000 more.

Please start writing.

cheers,
darryl


Terrence Enger wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-08-27 at 18:40 -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
>> To register for webcast (all real seats were spoken for long ago):
>>   http://copyright.econsultation.ca/topics-sujets/show-montrer/27
>>
>> Although they don't say so, it looks like it will work on Linux if you 
>> have Adobe Flash.  Cannot be sure yet.
> 
> Michael Geist's blog <http://www.michaelgeist.ca/> has two recent
> postings suggesting that not all in the consultation process is
> as it should be.
> 
> (*) In "The Toronto Music Industry Town Hall"
>     <http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/4329/125/> he
>     suggests that the meeting was stacked by industry
>     representatives.  Not all is bleak however: "My own view is
>     that it was so over-the-top that their message was lost in
>     light of such an obvious orchestrated attempt to stack the
>     deck."
> 
> (*) In "Government May Be Altering Copyright Submissions Without
>     Consent" <http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/4328/125/>
>     he accuses the government web site of counting alike all
>     submissions which start with a provided form letter regarless
>     of how the submitter may have customized it.  Sigh!
> 
> Cheers (well, that's what I say, anyway),
> Terry.
> 
> 
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