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June 1, 2004
Canada to Embrace Permission Culture?
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Michael Geist's latest column on copyright law in Canada contains yet another argument for the necessity of Creative Commons licenses: Toronto-area MP Sarmite Bulte is pushing for an interpretation of the law that embraces and codifies permission culture:
Although [Bulte's committee] acknowledges that some work on the Internet is intended to be freely available, the committee recommends the adoption of the narrowest possible definition of publicly available. Its vision of publicly-available includes only those works that are not technologically or password protected and contain an explicit notice that the material can be used without prior payment or permission.
This despite the fact that our Northern neighbors are world leaders in
affirming the public's side of copyright bargain.
Et tu, Canada?
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1. Ernest Miller on June 1, 2004 2:39 PM writes...
Of course, this system isn't all that different from some alternative compensation schemes for music. Sure, there will be blanket licensing, but the schools will have to be part of the licensing scheme. What they download and use to teach the children will have to be monitored and tracked and compensation paid to the artists. Because under several of the schemes all music will be compensated, even stuff that schools would use for free will ultimately be paid for.
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