[CivicAccess-discuss] CBC going Rogue with bounty (copyright) hunters

[Tracey P. Lauriault]

The CBC is adopting some pretty regressive licensing!

*CBC’s new licencing plan: Pay to Print, Email, and Blog, and outsource
enforcement to American Copyright Digital Rights Bounty Hunters* -
http://cameronmcmaster.wordpress.com/2010/01/29/cbcs-new-licencing-plan-pay-to-print-email-and-blog-and-outsource-enforcement-to-american-copyright-witch-hunting/

*Canadian Broadcasting Corporation signs up with weird American copyright
bounty-hunters* -
http://www.boingboing.net/2010/01/30/canadian-broadcastin.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+boingboing%2FiBag+%28Boing+Boing%29

Here is a note I wrote them:
I thought the CBC was a public service supported with public dollars?  If
that is the case does Crown Copyright not already cover the content?  And is
your content not public domain and would a Creative Commons Attribution
license not be the way to go?  Otherwise why give you public dollars?  You
want my support, and I give it, but now you are going to far!  This is not
my CBC any more.  My CBC broadcasts the news in myriad formats to keep us a
critical thinking democracy, my CBC does not sell me the news or thwart me
from sharing that news with others providing I attribute the source. My CBC
is a knowledge disseminator and not a bounty hunter, that is not my CBC.

Yikes!
-- 
Tracey P. Lauriault
613-234-2805
https://gcrc.carleton.ca/confluence/display/GCRCWEB/Lauriault
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