Copyright Resources

20 Nov

Bill C-11 (current pending legislation, Fall 2011)

Copyright Modernization Act
http://www.parl.gc.ca/HousePublications/Publication.aspx?Language=E&Mode=1&DocId=5144516

The Return of Copyright Reform
http://zone505.wordpress.com/2011/09/09/return-of-copyright-reform/ 

Dwayne Winseck, The Globe and Mail,ctober 25, 2011, Take Notice of the Slippery Slopes in the Copyright Modernization Act
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/digital-culture/dwayne-winseck/take-notice-of-the-slippery-slopes-in-the-copyright-modernization-act/article2212937/ 

CAUT on Bill C-11
http://www.speakoutoncopyright.ca/blog/caut-bill-c-11 

Elizabeth May and Charlie Angus on Bill C-11, Oct 21 2011


Bill C-32(ca. 2010)

Government of Canada’s Balanced Copyright site:
http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/crp-prda.nsf/eng/home

Govt of Canada Copyright Consultations site (2009 consult)
http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/008.nsf/eng/home

List of submissions
http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/008.nsf/eng/h_00001.html?Open&c=42#itm42

Michael Geist ed, From “Radical Extremism” to “Balanced Copyright”: Canadian Copyright and the Digital Agenda.
http://www.irwinlaw.com/store/product/666/from–radical-extremism–to–balanced-copyright-

Sam Trosow on Bill C-32
http://samtrosow.ca/content/view/91/2/

UWO library-compilation of resources on library/educator responses to Bill C-32
https://www.lib.uwo.ca/blogs/digitalscholarly/2010/06/educators-and-s.html

Canadian Library Association on Bill C-32
http://www.cla.ca/Content/ContentFolders/NewsReleases/2010/Bill_C-32_CLA_Brief_final.pdf

Geist – Key Issues on Bill C-32
http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/5316/125/

The Fight for Fair Copyright (Canadian Federation of Students, May 25, 2010)

CBC’s Download Decade series
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/digital-culture/download-decade/ Outside Canada

Other Activism in Canada

Brett Gaylor – RIP! A Remix Manifesto
http://ripremix.com/

Appropriation Art – good links to resources. Check out video: Why Copyright? Canadian Voices on Copyright
http://www.appropriationart.ca/action/c32

Laura Murray’s site
http://www.faircopyright.ca/

Meera Nair’s Fair Duty site
http://fairduty.wordpress.com/

Students for Free Culture
http://freeculture.org/

Creative Commons
http://creativecommons.org/

Illegal Art
http://www.illegal-art.org/

Lawrence Lessig’s Free Culture
http://www.free-culture.cc/

Lawrence Lessig’s Remix
http://remix.lessig.org/

Free Expression Policy project
http://www.fepproject.org/issues/copyright.html

Good Copy, Bad Copy – film about CR (Denmark, 2007)
http://www.goodcopybadcopy.net/

Copyright, What’s Copyright? from the Media Education Lab, ca. 2009

Creative Commons

A Shared Culture, ca. 2008, by Jesse Dylan, Dir.

Creative Commons
http://creativecommons.org/ 

Creative Commons Canada
http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Canada 

Lessig on Creative Commons, 2010

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