Canadian copyright consultation -- ending September 13!

[Jason Carson]

The Canadian Coalition for Electronic Rights has a letter wizard that
sends a letter to the Prime Minister. Tony Clement and several other
people. If your interested you can see it here...

http://www.ccer.ca/send-a-letter-to-ottawa-to-stop-the-canadian-dmca/

> The government of Canada plans on introducing new copyright legislation
> the fall or winter.
>
> The Conservatives introduced C61 but it "died on the order paper" when
> they called the last election.  They got a lot of criticism for not
> consulting the public before introducing this.
>
> They started the the consultation a little over a month ago.  It is
> closing on Sunday.  It would be good to let them hear what you think.
>
> Here is the official consultation web site:
>   http://copyright.econsultation.ca/
> It includes a way of submitting comments.
>
> Prof. Michael Geist is very useful on this topic.  Here is a site that
> he set up:
>   http://www.speakoutoncopyright.ca/
>
> See also:
>   http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=6315846683
>   http://www.speakoutoncopyright.ca/copyright-take-action
>   http://www.flora.ca/documents/copyright-200908-consensus.pdf
>   http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2009/08/my-canadian-copyright-consulta.html
>   http://craphound.com/CanadianCopyrightConsultation.html
>
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