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Submission from Jim Carrico received on September 16, 2001 via e-mail
Subject: Canadian copyright reform
Dear Sirs/Madams:
I would like to drop a quick line to you who are considering following the USA in their ill-conceived efforts to ignore the interests of *all* citizens by giving too much power to copyright holders. Intellectual property was originally intended to be temporary and limited, and the purpose of providing this temporary and limited protection to creators was to provide incentive for creative individuals to contribute to all of society - in other words to create a vibrant and dynamic public domain of ideas and culture. The current trend of laws like the DMCA is to lock up ideas and culture into unbreakable boxes that can never be legally opened without explicit permission; it takes a temporary and limited protection and makes it permanent and unlimited. Not only will enforcement of this sort of law be technically challenging, but it will require severe and onerous policing of otherwise-legal activities. This will tend to irritate otherwise law-abiding citizens and cause them to lose respect for the law and it's creators and enforcers in general.
thank you,
Jim Carrico,
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