Dear friends, This important notice is from the Gutenberg Canada free press website. gutenberg.ca/ These people provide a very valuable service by providing copyright expired books to the public. jan. Without the public domain, Project Gutenberg Canada would not exist today. But the public domain is once again under attack. The free trade talks underway with the Trans-Pacific Partnership could well result in a twenty-year extension to copyright terms in Canada. Why should foreigners make our laws? Tell the government to respect YOUR rights! The Trans-Pacific Partnership must not increase copyright durations in our country — send an email to the Minister of International Trade to make sure that this does not happen! And why not send a copy of this email to your Member of Parliament? Together, we will win this battle, for ourselves, for our fellow citizens, and for future generations! You will be in excellent company when you protest to your government about the Trans Pacific Partnership: On 27 August 2012 Mark Akrigg, founder of Project Gutenberg Canada, made on his own behalf a submission to the government of the United States describing the enormous harm that the TPP would inflict on the citizens of Canada, the U.S., and all the other TPP countries. This follows on his February 2012 submission on copyright extensions and the Trans-Pacific Partnership to the Government of Canada. The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) says that the TPP document does not reflect the balance necessary to protect the public domain. This statement was signed by the national library associations of: United States of America Australia Canada New Zealand Chile Peru Vietnam The Library and Information Association of New Zealand Aotearoa has made strong policy statements about the damage that the TPP would cause in the areas of: copyright extensions parallel imports (importing lawfully purchased items from foreign sources rather than from more expensive domestic distributors) — a powerful tool for discouraging monopolistic pricing bypassing digital locks when the activity involved is perfectly legal The Canadian Library Association has identified no fewer than seven major areas of concern: the twenty-year copyright extension special privileges for digital locks statutory damages that would not distinguish between commercial and non-commercial infringement — a distinction made in Canadas new copyright legislation, and one that is hugely important to free websites such as PG Canada. In case of inadvertent infringement, we have no money to pay damages, or to pay lawyers. law enforcement provisions that would require disclosure of personal information with no privacy safeguards the requirement that internet providers take down website content that allegedly infringes copyright — without allowing the alleged infringer to object before the takedown occurs blocking of parallel imports imposing new types of copyright criminalization
Posted on: Sun, 29 Jun 2014 12:45:27 +0000
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