Re: [PGCanada] Re: [Fwd: Re: !@!Re: PG Canada]
On 18:19:07 Darryl Moore wrote:
That would help. But the most helpful would be an endorsement by prominent Canadian authors such as Pierre Button, Margaret Atwood,
What's the point of this again? I seem to have missed the email that sparked this. If it's to get them to endorse something with a view towards protecting the public domain, and resisting the extension of copyright, forget it: Pierre Berton and Margaret Atwood are typical members of the CanLit gliterati: they don't mind pilfering the public domain, but God forbid their works should ever enter into it. Atwood is very clearly in favour of term extension; Pierre Berton seems to be tacitly so for reasons I don't wish to disclose in public.
The idea here is to help establish some legitimacy. So that if we get to court we aren't simply seen as a group who's mandate is to ruffle feathers. I think PG Canada in on pretty safe ground, but you can never have too much legitimacy. Remember, the most important battle we are going to have to fight is going to be in the heads of a citizenry who often believe corporations have eternal monopolies on this stuff. We're going to need all the legitimacy we can get! Wallace J.McLean wrote:
On 18:19:07 Darryl Moore wrote:
That would help. But the most helpful would be an endorsement by prominent Canadian authors such as Pierre Button, Margaret Atwood,
What's the point of this again? I seem to have missed the email that sparked this.
If it's to get them to endorse something with a view towards protecting the public domain, and resisting the extension of copyright, forget it: Pierre Berton and Margaret Atwood are typical members of the CanLit gliterati: they don't mind pilfering the public domain, but God forbid their works should ever enter into it. Atwood is very clearly in favour of term extension; Pierre Berton seems to be tacitly so for reasons I don't wish to disclose in public.
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On Wed, 10 Nov 2004, Darryl Moore wrote:
have too much legitimacy. Remember, the most important battle we are going to have to fight is going to be in the heads of a citizenry who often believe corporations have eternal monopolies on this stuff.
That's a good point. When talking to others about digitising texts for PG, I've been told, "You should be careful; people can renew copyrights, you know", which sends me off on a rant about how copyright only lasts for a set, limited term... (at least until governments are pressured into passing legislation saying otherwise...) Andrew
Andrew Sly wrote:
When talking to others about digitising texts for PG, I've been told, "You should be careful; people can renew copyrights, you know", which sends me off on a rant about how copyright only lasts for a set, limited term...
(at least until governments are pressured into passing legislation saying otherwise...)
I have to be totally up front here. That is precisely why I am so interested in this project. I think the literature is great, and it will be great to see everybody reading classic texts on their Palm Pilots. I wish I had more time to do so myself. But my passion is protecting society's rights in copyright issues. [RANT] You always here the rhetoric from the monopolists that "Theft is Theft". Well I want to turn that back on them and make people understand that it is the media companies that are stealing from us. Not us from them. Their crime is much greater than any of the P2P pirating which is currently happening that they are so upset about. I am hoping that through this project we can elevate public awareness of this issue and the huge value of our cultural inheritance to such a height that nobody will let the MegaCorps steal any more of it. Don't even get me started on DRM. Or at least lets switch to http://list.digital-copyright.ca/mailman/listinfo/discuss if you do :-) [/RANT] cheers, darryl
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