Calgary Herald is Spot On

Catherine Ford writes about the problems with Bill C-61 in the Calgary Herald.

While the purported beneficiaries of the new act are those artists, the real beneficiaries will be the companies who publish, control and market such work. With the possible exception of an original piece of art, all intellectual property are copied and distributed by someone other than the creator. It is these middlemen who will profit from digital locks, regardless of the hype about copyright protection.

That's it for the summer; the House has risen and is supposed to return in September (when I'm back in Ottawa!). I'll be attempting to talk to my MP about this if he'll actually return my mail/phone calls. I'm not holding my breath.