Thanks for this reminder. I've been putting together a submission myself and I'd urge others to do the same. If you're not sure where to begin, michaelgeist.ca has some excellent discussion of where Canadian copyright law should be headed. In addition to individual submissions, what are the chances that as a group, the Wikimedia Canada folks could put together a submission. It obviously couldn't be official, but as a group of citizens involved in setting up an organization that will be interested in Canadian copyright issues, I think it makes sense to draft something. Thanks, -Mike On Tue, 2009-07-21 at 15:55 -0700, Ray Saintonge wrote: _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-ca mailing list Wikimedia-ca(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-ca

I think the goal of the consultation is to receive submission about how the public would like the law shaped, not necessarily petitions to compel said changes. 2009/7/22 Jeffery Nichols <arctic.gnome(a)gmail.com> I think we should avoid making overt political statements under WMC's name, -- View Alan Walker's profile on LinkedIn [http://www.linkedin.com/in/walker1]

Time and exact location? Andrew "Fill the world with children who care and things start looking up." ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 12:37:23 -0400 From: fastalan(a)gmail.com To: wikimedia-ca(a)lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-Canada] Canadian copyrights Apparently there is a round table discussion scheduled for the copyright discussion: August 27: Toronto - Town Hall Anyone interested in attending with me? 2009/7/22 Alan Walker &lt;fastalan(a)gmail.com&gt; I think the goal of the consultation is to receive submission about how the public would like the law shaped, not necessarily petitions to compel said changes. 2009/7/22 Jeffery Nichols &lt;arctic.gnome(a)gmail.com&gt; I think we should avoid making overt political statements under WMC's name, but if you write a statement in WMC's space on Meta and advertise it to this mailing list and Wikipedia's Canadian notice board, I bet you could get a lot of signatures on it before sending it in, including my own. -Jeffery Nichols (Arctic.gnome) On 22-Jul-09, at 12:46 PM, Mike.lifeguard wrote: Thanks for this reminder. I've been putting together a submission myself and I'd urge others to do the same. If you're not sure where to begin, michaelgeist.ca has some excellent discussion of where Canadian copyright law should be headed. In addition to individual submissions, what are the chances that as a group, the Wikimedia Canada folks could put together a submission. It obviously couldn't be official, but as a group of citizens involved in setting up an organization that will be interested in Canadian copyright issues, I think it makes sense to draft something. Thanks, -Mike On Tue, 2009-07-21 at 15:55 -0700, Ray Saintonge wrote: The Canadian government has asked for comments on copyright revision at http://copyright.econsultation.ca/ It will accept comments until September 13. Amazingly this mostly coincides with the time when most people interested in liberalized copyright laws are away touring Europe or planting trees. When they regain access to their electronic lifelines it may be too late to comment. Promoters of these changes would really like Canada to fall in line with the WIPO treaty that it signed a decade ago. They might have passed their changes easily if they had been quick about it, but events over the last 10 years have made this much more controversial then they would have hoped. There do not appear to be any rules that would prohibit comments by non-Canadians. Ec _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-ca mailing list Wikimedia-ca(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-ca _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-ca mailing list Wikimedia-ca(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-ca -- View Alan Walker's profile on LinkedIn [http://www.linkedin.com/in/walker1] -- View Alan Walker's profile on LinkedIn [http://www.linkedin.com/in/walker1] ------------------------------ More storage. Better anti-spam and antivirus protection. Hotmail makes it simple. <http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9671352> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-ca mailing list Wikimedia-ca(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-ca

Apparently there is a round table discussion scheduled for the copyright discussion: August 27: Toronto - Town Hall Anyone interested in attending with me?