Julianna Yau’s blog

It’s been a while since I’ve posted a real entry to this blog because I’ve been busy with my studio open house. Now that I have better studio space, I’ll be re-evaluating how much time I’m spending on this blog. Celebrate Our Artists’ Weekend is just around the corner, and I have some other things on the go too.

Here are some links (some of which are old in blog time) to things which have been happening while I’ve been running around with studio stuff. There’s more to come, because I have 168 unread blog posts!

Art

• “Spring Cleaning” Parliamentary Update from the Canada Conference for the Arts
• From zero to $22.5-million in 2 years
• Flood shuts Canada’s national archives

C-10

• No guidelines could fix bill C-10 film clause: Cronenberg
• MPs, including Tories, sign up to view controversial sex comedy

Copyright

• John Degen on copyright in the Globe & Mail, and his afterthoughts
• Lessig on the orphan works bill in the US
• Louis Vuitton sues art student over Darfur design
• No quick fix in negotiations: actors union to members
• Denver Gingerich wants to know whether anyone attended the Copyright in Canada conference who can share information about it

Net Neutrality

• Internet protesters to descend on Ottawa
• NDP to introduce ‘net neutrality’ private member’s bill

And just for fun, here’s a story of how Dell is competing with Sony not only for market share but severity of PR fiascoes.

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John Degen, fellow creator and copyright blogger, is offering his book, The Uninvited Guest, as a free PDF download. This book was shortlisted for Canada’s First Novel Award, and this experiment will be interesting to watch alongside MCM’s Panda Apples.

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A few more chime in on C-10:

• Sam Trosow, who has a thorough summary of the issues and found the direct link the the CCA’s press release on C-10
• Lawrence at Northworthy, who points to the CBC news segment “Film Funding Furour” from Sunday
• John Degen, who I missed the first time around (sorry, John!)

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So the holidays are over, everyone’s back to work and many are back to pouring their opinions, manifestos, recommendations and responses to copyright on the internet.

The Creators’ Copyright Coalition released their platform on copyright, and there were some immediate responses I noticed, plus a few more trickling in afterwards (on p2pNet, Canadian Magazines, plus the oodles of comments on the more active blogs, such as Michael Geist’s and John Degen’s).

To be honest, I usually stop reading the comments by about the third one, because everyone seems more interested in trying to be heard than trying to fix the problem. I wonder how many of us even have a good handle on what the problem is anymore.

It feels like everyone is working so hard at making sure they don’t get screwed somewhere down the line because they didn’t throw in their 2 cents (or more) that we’re collectively reacting and fortifying… and doing little else which is actually productive.

One of the horrible things about the internet is that shouting matches can go on indefinitely. On a well-moderated discussion forum (regardless of the technology used), these shouting matches can often be either tamed or extinguished altogether. From what I’ve seen, the shouting matches which take place in the blogosphere (both within comments of a blog post and between separate blogs) will go on until only one person had the endurance to have the last word.

I, too, have fallen victim to the mentality of “when attacked (or perceived to be attacked), retaliate”. But because I have little patience for conversations which lead nowhere (or in circles), I usually abandon those conversations quickly.

The internet has great potential for sparking and hosting discussion, but I fear it shall be a long time before the novelty of being our own publisher wears off and we finally take the time to do something productive with all of the discussion.

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I have already said what I need to say about the CCC’s platform on copyright, so I’m not going to respond directly to these posts:

• Michael Geist (of course), and John Degen’s response
• Mathew Ingram
• Comments over at Digital Copyright Canada

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