This is a concise info page developed by Kempton Lam and Michael Geist to highlight some of the most obvious and identifiable faults with Bill C-61, Minister Prentice’s Canadian DMCA.  Great for helping explain why this bill is so wrong for Canadian citizens.  You can download the pdf here.

Hands Off My DVDs - C-61 prohibits transferring DVDs to a computer or video player, locks out region coded DVDs
Hands Off My iPod - C-61 prohibits transferring copy-controlled CD to iPod
Hands Off My PVR - C-61 prohibits recording broadcast flagged TV shows

Hands Off My Teachers - C-61 forces teachers to destroy their digital lessons after 30 days
Hands Off My Librarians - C-61 forces librarians to use DRM (digital locks) for digital delivery of articles
Hands Off My Film - C-61 is opposed by documentary filmmakers who fear it will make it more difficult to create films
Hands Off My Artwork - C-61 locks out artists from using some works and makes it more difficult to create

Hands Off My Kids - C-61 makes lawsuit against teenagers more likely
Hands Off My Privacy - C-61 makes it more difficult to protect your privacy against DRM’d products
Hands Off My Copyright Rights - C-61 renders fair dealing obsolete in the digital world
Hands Off My Research - C-61 could make our researchers infringers for circumventing for research purposes
Hands Off My Students - C-61 locks out students from accessing their digitally locked electronic books

For more info and find out how to help,  please visit  www.FairCopyrightForCanada.ca and join the Fair Copyright For Canada Facebook groups (both the national and Calgary chapter)

Don’t forget about the Stampede Breakfast Rally tomorrow!

Tags: Canada, Copyright, Law, Politics

A rare appearance, and a chance for us to actually speak to him about Bill C-61, the controversial, corrupt, DMCA-style sellout of Canadian’s rights.

Minister Prentice has avoided public appearances like the plague because he either:

• a) realizes that he is committing a disgusting betrayal of his fellow citizens and knows that there is no way he could defend his actions, or
• b) is too ignorant to understand what he is doing and doesn’t want to have to again demonstrate his complete lack of knowledge about the consequences of this bill to the Canadian people.

I’m personally leaning more towards b), especially after hearing him parrot back mind-bogglingly stupid talking points whenever he actually is challenged about the real-world implications of C-61 (check out this CBC interview, where he flat-out lies, then hangs up on the interviewer).  When the only responses he can come up with are “The market will take care of it.” or “They probably won’t prosecute.”, you know he just doesn’t give a crap about the Canadian public.

From Kempton:

Date: Saturday, July 5, 2008
Time: 8:45am - 11:00am
Sign up: Facebook event (optional)
Location: Osteria de Medici parking lot
Street: corner of Kensington Road and 10th Street NW, Calgary
Map: see this Google Map

Please bring along a cash donation for the Children’s Cottage Society and make your voice heard.

*** Meeting place at 8:45 ***

Meeting at the Osteria de Medici parking lot at the corner of Kensington Road and 10th Street NW at 8:45am. We will have a short briefing. And take some group photos and group videos sharing our concerns re Bill C-61.

*** 9:00 - 11:00 Breakfasts & meet Minister Prentice ***

Get our Stampede breakfasts and have our chance to talk to Minister Prentice about our C-61 concerns. We may each only get a few seconds of Prentice’s time. So be concise. Speak on areas that we are passionate about and knowledgeably. Remember to speak politely, clearly and firmly.

*** Slogans and information sheets ***

A concise and brief information sheet on the various C-61 issues and concerns can be downloaded here.

Note: To save paper, there are three copies of the same information per sheet of paper. Please print a few pages and cut these sheets into three parts.

Please download & print the slogan you are most passionate about and knowledgeable about so you can speak with conviction. The PDF slogan files can be found under their respective directories here. There is a Read-me file if you need extra help.

*** Photos and Videos ***

Please shoot plenty of photos and videos throughout our peaceful protest to post on Facebook, YouTube, and our blogs, etc.

A picture is worth a thousand words, and a video may be a million. A picture, an audio clip, or a short video can sometimes change people’s minds and may be change the world for the better.

Lets get our message out.

I honestly would not be surprised to find out that Minister Prentice no-shows tomorrow, but I still encourage EVERYONE that can get to Calgary to please show up and say something!  Keep up the public pressure and they will back down!

Tags: Calgary, Canada, Copyright, Law, Politics