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Copyright Act and private agreements  
Written by Tamir the 20 Aug 09 at 14:44. Global category: Copyright Consultation. New
Should the Copyright Act include limitations on the types of conditions rights holders and other parties can impose?

Licensing agreements can often far overreach the scope of copyright protection.

More importantly, perhaps, ISPs in other jurisdictions have been making deals with copyright holders to cut off customers accused of infringing, and now even to block certain sites like Pirate's Bay altogether.

Thoughts? Solutions?
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Solution #1: Retain ISP immunity clauses
Written by Tamir the 20 Aug 09 at 14:44.
ISPs are currently immune from liability under the copyright for merely transmitting copyrighted material. However, they may have an obligation to take down infringing material if notified of it by a rights holder.

ISPs should not be the ones making such decisions. A Notice-Notice system should be more clearly incorporated into the Act, where ISPs are required to do no more than notify accused customers that they have been accused of infringing copyright.

Would this be enough?

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How to Develop the Final Document  
Written by Brogar the 4 Aug 09 at 10:52. Global category: Copyright Consultation. New
We need to find a collaborative writing tool that will allow for the development of our final deliverable. It needs to be able to support many users and should be able to handle larger documents.
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Solution #1: Mixed Ink
Written by Brogar the 4 Aug 09 at 10:52.
Mixed Ink is a possibility, I don't know enough about it to provide more details but wanted to get the discussion rolling.

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sharing is human nature and is key to survival  
Written by mattlamb the 19 Aug 09 at 02:45. Global category: Copyright Consultation. New
without our society of sharing resources, ideas, and science where would we be?
reselling these ideas or resources in a "commercial" way without the creators permission is already illegal.

The more often your work is shared, seen, admired, learnt from the more chance people will value it and pay for the product commercially.

If sharing is natural and 99% of young people are doing it please do not consider restrictive laws that will have the effect of the extreme minority controlling the majority, its a recipe for disaster politically and financially.
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Solution #1: By passing a law
Written by mattlamb the 19 Aug 09 at 02:45.
By passing a law that encourages free sharing so long as it is "individually" in nature and not commercial we will do what libraries have be doing for years educate and inform.
creators will find more success personally and financially through sharing than they ever will by effectively hoarding and only selling to those that have the money.

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Need an End Product  
Written by Brogar the 27 Jul 09 at 16:18. Global category: Copyright Consultation. New
The end product of these discussions should be decided early. Are we going to submit a proposal? A model act? A policy paper? A cartoon?
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Solution #1: Policy Paper
Written by Brogar the 27 Jul 09 at 16:18.
We could submit a simple policy paper outlining all of the topics they asked that we cover and the ideas and solutions that were proposed here.
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Solution #2: Model Copyright Act
Written by Brogar the 27 Jul 09 at 16:58.
We might submit an actual act. This would be a significant amount of work and it much less accessible to non-law types.
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Solution #3: Report of ideastorm issues/solutions if there's a wide range of opinions
Written by kaplanmyrth the 14 Aug 09 at 16:17.
If this site gets a wide range of opinions that makes it hard to distill into a single policy vision, then it may still be useful to submit the results of this ideastorm as a report or even a dataset for further analysis.

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Anti-circumvention  
Written by Brogar the 29 Jul 09 at 16:55. Global category: Copyright Consultation. New
Technological protection measures have been around for an awfully long time and are likely going to stick around.

How should Canada address these digital locks and the circumvention of them in the new act?
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Solution #1: Allow Circumvention
Written by Brogar the 29 Jul 09 at 16:55.
Allowing the circumvention of digital locks in certain situations including research, education, and rightful ownership makes sense.
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Solution #2: Solution #2: Bill C-60 Approach
Written by DFewer the 5 Aug 09 at 15:37.
Solution #1 is consistent with both C-60 and the DMCA approach. The problem with picking certain activities that are permitted to avoid a digital lock is that you replicate the work already done in the Copyright Act: we've already identified socially useful activities that do not infringe copyright. Why replicate that task in anti-circumvention?

This suggests that we adopt the C-60 approach - no liability for circumvention if done for a non-infringing purpose.

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Litigation doesn't change the behaviour  
Written by KickingRaven the 14 Aug 09 at 19:01. Global category: Copyright Consultation. New
People file share. There is little empathy for the companies who say they are losing vast sums of revenue due to it. Litigation of ordinary citizens for vast sums of money in damages does nothing to change the apathy, if anything it causes a greater degree of it. The data that companies use to demonstrate that file sharing hurts them is flawed. People want to share, it is in our nature.
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Solution #1: Don't make it illegal
Written by KickingRaven the 14 Aug 09 at 19:01.
If the attitude towards file sharing could be changed to a more positive one then there are monetization opportunities. As an example, if a person shares content with people and that results in a sale then the sharer would receive some form of compensation, say credits via a redeemable code that the purchaser enters. Change the perception of the activity and recognize the potential benefits the change can represent.
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Solution #2: Legal copyright protections that encourage monetization
Written by Tamir the 17 Aug 09 at 23:57.
Along with an attitude shift, maybe it would be useful to produce some form of legislative incentives in the coming copyright bill that would encourage content creators to develop monetization schemes?

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Signing on to Final Document  
Written by Tamir the 27 Jul 09 at 21:14. Global category: Copyright Consultation. New
How should contributors be identified in the final submission?
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Solution #1: Sign final document with All Contributor Pseudonymns
Written by Tamir the 27 Jul 09 at 21:14.
The final document can contain the name of everyone who submitted an idea as well as anyone that voted x amount of times.

Include an opt-out?

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Breaking down the big questions  
Written by Brogar the 28 Jul 09 at 11:12. Global category: Copyright Consultation. New
The government proposed 5 big questions that are too broad to be proposed at single ideas.

1. How do Canada’s copyright laws affect you? How should existing laws be modernized?
2. Based on Canadian values and interests, how should copyright changes be made in order to withstand the test of time?
3. What sorts of copyright changes do you believe would best foster innovation and creativity in Canada?
4. What sorts of copyright changes do you believe would best foster competition and investment in Canada?
5. What kinds of changes would best position Canada as a leader in the global, digital economy?

Breaking these questions into smaller more focussed discussions might lead to better results.

There are two questions here, do we make sub-questions out of these big, board questions? If so, what form do these subquestions take?
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Solution #1: Smaller Questions
Written by Brogar the 28 Jul 09 at 11:12.
We should break them into smaller questions with tighter discussion and solutions being proposed.

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