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: Slaw.caPublic forum on copyright issues
By Evan VanDyk
Our readers may be interested in an event in Toronto next week. I got a flyer in my mailbox from Olivia Chow, the MP for my riding, advertising a public forum on “how to build a vibrant online arts presence while ensuring fairness for both artists and users.”
The speakers are Charlie Angus (the NDP’s “digital affairs critic”), Michael Geist, Don Quarles, Stephen Waddell and Victoria Owen. It’s scheduled to take place next Wednesday, March 18 at 7 p.m. at the University of Toronto.
Presumably the Conservative government will eventually get around to another attempt at updating copyright law to bring Heritage Minister James Moore’s PVR use into compliance, so here’s your chance to at least have some input into the opposition’s position before that happens.
Full post as published by Slaw.ca on March 11, 2009 (boomark / email).
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