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A user on the OLPC News website forum reports that his XO laptop was delivered by FexEx, but he is not in possession of it.

I’m a bit late on distributing this press release. I’ve been hoping to read the platform first, but this time of the year is simply too busy!

Here’s the PDF version of the platform in the original French and translated English.

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Montréal, December 13 2007.

7 professional associations of artists and performers and 5 copyright collective societies take position on the coming reform of the Copyright Act

DAMI© (Droit d’auteur/Multimédia-Internet/Copyright) is a coalition of 12 professional associations of artists and performers and copyright collective societies active in the theatre arts, visual arts, audiovisual (radio, television, movies, and commercials), literature, applied arts, and recording. Together, these twelve associations and collectives represent more than 50,000 artists and copyright holders.

Creators’ associations :

• Association québécoise des auteurs dramatiques (AQAD)
• Conseil des métiers d’art du Québec (CMA)
• Regroupement des artistes en arts visuels (RAAV)
• Société des auteurs de radio, télévision et cinéma (SARTEC)
• Société professionnelle des auteurs et des compositeurs du Québec (SPACQ)
• Union des écrivaines et des écrivains québécois (UNEQ)

Performers’ association:

• Union des artistes (UDA)

Copyright collective societies:

• Union des écrivaines et des écrivains québécois (UNEQ)
• Société de droits d’auteur en arts visuels (SODART)
• Société du droit de reproduction des auteurs, compositeurs et éditeurs du Canada (SODRAC)
• Société de gestion collective de l’Union des artistes (ARTISTI)
• Société québécoise de gestion collective des droits de reproduction (COPIBEC)
• Société québécoise des auteurs dramatiques (SoQAD)

DAMI© defends the interests of authors and performers in the process of revision of the Copyright Act of Canada.

The present platform reflects the common positions of the different associations and collective societies in the DAMI© coalition. Each of them, however, remains free to provide details or supplementary information, or to complement the analysis of the issues pertinent to its field of activities

As you will see these positions are articulated around three major concerns for both creators and performers:

1. Reaffirming the importance of protecting creators’ moral rights and affirming the importance of protecting performers’ moral rights

2. Ensuring that creators are associated with the economic life of their works throughout the duration of the protection provided in the Act and that performers be associated with the economic life of their performances

3. Recognizing that only collective management of copyright and neighbouring rights can permit proper circulation of copyright-protected works by facilitating their use and the payment of royalties by users, while ensuring reasonable compensation to holders of copyright and neighbouring rights.

Have a good reading.

If you missed the original broadcast of The Agenda’s panel discussion on copyright, you can watch it online.

Thanks to Michael Geist for noticing that it was posted (and reading the comments, I am seemingly alone in my review of the show).