Coalitions-R-Us
Lawrence from Northworthy and Michael Geist write about a newly formed coalition, the Business Coalition for Balanced Copyright.
It seems like everyone is forming a copyright-centric coalition these days: the Canadian Music Creators Coalition, the Creators’ Copyright Coalition, the Canadian Coalition for Electronic Rights, and now the Business Coalition for Balanced Copyright (which, despite having members such as Google, Yahoo! Canada, Rogers, Telus and Tucows, does not seem to have a website yet).
What’s next? The Canadian Coalition of Copyright Coalitions?
Now that we’re done (maybe) creating coalitions, can we get together and actually resolve some of these issues?
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By Julianna Yau
On February 19, 2008
At 8:32 pm
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By Julianna Yau
On February 19, 2008
At 8:32 pm
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When I first started to show up at Copyright events, and ask to be heard by Heritage, I was always asked “so where is your group”. The idea of a — gasp — citizen having informed views on Copyright simply never occured to the Heritage bureaucracy..
Coalitions are built because this is what the government understands. Come together on a few narrow issues such that all the complexities of these issues seem to disappear, and simply ignore anyone not part of these coalitions (IE: the vast majority of participants in the only consultation that happened in 2001/2002) and who had more nuanced concerns.
The way Copyright is formed in Canada is worse than baloney — you also don’t want to know what goes into baloney, but at least it won’t kill you.