On Tue, 9 Nov 2004, Darryl Moore wrote:
Lastly, we are not really into this to upset US lawyers. The purpose is to promote the Canadian public domain and fight to keep it. I'd be just as happy if the US were physically incapable of accessing the site.
This is important. This should not be about US laws at all, but the Canadian public domain and Canadian law. We have enough of our own misguided Canadian policy makers to worry about (topic for digital-copyright.ca , probably not here) than always worrying about foreign jurisdictions. Just as US citizens need to fix US law, it is Canadians that need to fix/protect Canadian law. We should host on a site that not only is in Canada, but is with a Canadian ISP that is clearly on-side with the project where the project is not "just a customer". Heritage Committee has recommended Canada adopt the same "claim and censor" regime that the US has. We need to ensure that Canadian law is followed, and that we have Canadian lawyers on-side with the project such that the ISP can simply ignore these SPAM messages claiming to be from copyright holders. For those who haven't seen the Heritage report: http://www.digital-copyright.ca/node/view/550 As both a creator and an ISP I would love to be able to file any received "notice and takedown" (claim and censor) messages with the Competition Bureau under "deceptive marketing" and see what happens. I wonder if it is also fraud to claim to be the copyright holder of something when you are not. -- Russell McOrmond, Internet Consultant: <http://www.flora.ca/> Code is Law: how software code regulates the activities of citizens, and acts similar to law. How do we ensure transparency/accountability? http://www.flora.ca/russell/drafts/life-of-hacker.html#code=law