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Bill C61, An Act to Amend the Copyright Act, has been tabled in the House of Commons on June 12. As a Government Bill, it was introduced by the Industry Minister Jim Prentice and is likely to be debated at the next Parliamentary session which is scheduled to begin on September 15, 2008.If you'd like to read the actual bill, here it is
-Toronto Arts Coalition
...but you won't, so check out these links for further information:
Toronto Star
CBC
Copyright bill protests surge online
Tories' digital mashup
Prentice’s copywrong
Canada's new copyright bill: More spin than 'win-win'
Tories to unveil new copyright bill
Copyright Act gets overdue update (Lawyer's Weekly)
Uncle Sam's fingers are all over the Canadian copyright bill (a good one)
(links courtesy of Toronto Arts Coalition)
In summation, it will be illegal for a Canadian to make this glorious GIF that I found:
And for posting it, we will go to prison.
And this blog will be all about prison crafts and will be renamed sally mckay and L.M. and Maurice "Mom" Boucher, but more likely will be called Maurice "Mom" Boucher and L.M. and sally mckay
If you have so much contempt for your M.P. that you can't remember his/her name, you can use this handy little tool to find his/her contact info.
Or you can email Jim Prentice, the American entertainment industry's handy little tool who is responsible for this bill: Prentice.J@parl.gc.ca
and of course, the Prime Minister’s Office: pm@pm.gc.ca
Miklos Legrady - Vintage Digital
"An 18th century funeral cortege, filled with guns? Seems like cause for concern.
Is the dreamer the violent one, or is the danger external? Either way, it's bad news"
When I saw this project, made with a 1990 Mac Classic program called Superpaint, I went back to Tom Moody's animation archive to look at these again:
George Grosz - Ecce Homo
(found)
The hero 1936 litho
(found)
Jesse Harris - 1-2-3-4 W.D.W.Y.F.W. 2008 enlarged pinback button replica, 12"x12"
Happy July 4th, my American friends
This is the greatest Canadian folk song ever written and it's about an American Lake Boat. So in honour of your day, we will all weep over and sing along to The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.
Annotated lyrics.
CBC Ideas has a pretty good podcast series called How to Think About Science. Theoretical physicist Lee Smolin was on talking about his book, The Trouble With Physics. The book and the talk both provide a nice analysis of the current political and funding structures that have put string theorists in the majority of gainfully employed physicists, even though string theory still hasn't generated any experimental evidence.
Quote from the podcast: Nobody has been able to extract anything that is what we call falsifiable, that is, if it's not seen then the theory is wrong. And this has just never happened before in the history of physics. As radical as general relativity was, even before Einstein had it in final form he knew what the key experiments were. ... He had several predictions that could be done with the technology of the time within two years, three years. Same thing with special relativity, same thing with quantum mechanics, same thing in every successful instance in the history of physics. The experimental check comes right away. There's always the contact with nature. It's very easy to invent mathematical structures, mathematical games that make no contact with reality. But a situation where some thousand, very gifted, very highly placed people in the most elite places in the world, passionately believe in something and have worked on it for two decades without a hint of how to test it experimentally, that's unlike anything that's ever happened before in the history of physics.Also, Smolin had some really nice things to say about Toronto.
Quote from the podcast: I have the impresion that science is part of the front of culture as culture evolves, and culture progresses and those of us who are at the front — scientists, artists, social theorists, architects, so forth — have a lot to say to each other. That maybe we lose out with the over-specialization and departmentalization. And there are venues for that conversation. Some of them are conferences, some of them are friendships, some of them are cities. A city is a venue for conversation, that's what they're for. As a New Yorker who moved to Toronto, I'm pretty excited about Toronto, that is, the people I meet here from theatre, films, music, writers, people in technology, people in politics. Toronto is more like New York than it is like London or Paris. It's a more open accessible city. You can be in Paris forever and never meet anyone who does anything different from you. Whereas in New York, once you're somehow in New York, you are continually meeting people who do something other than you, and Toronto is like that as well. I think I'm in a very lucky position because I've been fortunate enough to be able to write books as part of this community.