[CivicAccess-discuss] ask the Copyright Consultation for Crown Copyright reform

[Tracey P. Lauriault]

i submitted an addendum to my submission and have posted it here -
http://serendipityoucity.blogsome.com/2009/09/13/copyright-consultation-submission/

thanks for the good discussion & pointers.

On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 9:54 AM, Daniel Haran <chebuctonian at gmail.com>wrote:

> We're so early in these discussions that a consensus on what to ask
> for from government seems premature.
>
> In any case, the US right-wing has been so successful in stretching
> the Overton Window that we should consider the benefit of groups
> having different demands, including some that may sound unreasonable.
> See:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window
> http://openthefuture.com/2008/01/overton_window.html
>
> d.
>
> On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 9:36 AM, Russell McOrmond <russell at flora.ca>
> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 10 Sep 2009, Glen Newton wrote:
> >
> >   I agree that abolishing Crown Copyright won't be easy, but neither will
> > any of the other proposals we are making to try to turn from many decades
> > of bad copyright policy towards something reasonable.   Abolishing crown
> > copyright should be something we constantly ask for, even recognizing it
> > is not a short term goal.  It causes politicians to think about the uses
> > and abuses of copyright by the government, and will push them towards
> > supporting licensing which at least makes crown copyright stomach-able.
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