ARCHIVED — A Rhonda Hyslop 3
Archived Content
Information identified as archived on the Web is for reference, research or recordkeeping purposes. It has not been altered or updated after the date of archiving. Web pages that are archived on the Web are not subject to the Government of Canada Web Standards. As per the Communications Policy of the Government of Canada, you can request alternate formats on the "Contact Us" page.
COPYRIGHT REFORM PROCESS
REPY COMMENTS
Documents received have been posted in the official language in which they were submitted. All are posted as received by the departments, however all address information has been removed.
Reply comment from Rhonda Hyslop received on October 21, 2001 via e-mail
Subject: Reply comment
In the comment from Tom A. Trottier dated July 25, 2001, he writes:
"Encryption will result in the total loss of some information as
technologies become obsolete. Certainly, businesses have the quarter's
bottom line as their goal and are much less interested in whether someone
50 years from now can see what they made."
I would like to add that when the piece, be it music, video, or text, is released into the public domain, it will need to be republished in order to be readable by all. With the current length of the copyright term, the author will be long dead (by definition), the publisher may or may not still be in business, and the originals quite likely lost. The only way, then, to get this piece for the public domain would be to break the encryption "protecting" it, assuming a working machine exists to read the format it was published in. This type of encryption "protection" has the potential to kill the public domain, preventing it from ever growing. We, as a society, *need* the public domain.
Thank you for providing the opportunity to reply.
-Rhonda
(e-mail address removed)
(Footer removed)
- Date modified:
