Automatic MP Emailer protesting bill C-60

Bill C-60 is designed to bring Canadian Copyright law into step with the U.S.’s DMCA. This is a bad thing. Digital-Copyright.ca has created an easy to use method to send an email to each of the candidates in your riding a letter telling them that you do not support such a bill. Please take the time to read why you should be concerned about this and send off the letter.

Here is a sample of the letter.

From: myownbiggestfan
Subject: Digital Copyright letter from constituent

Dear Lee Richardson, Heesung Kim, Brian Pincott, John N. Johnson,
Trevor Grover
(Calgary Centre candidates)

Copyright law, and the changes proposed in Bill C-60, are of concern
to me. While copyright is most often described as a balance between
the interests of creators and the interests of users, the debate has
been dominated by special interest industry lobby groups representing
intermediaries.

Bill C-60 may be supported by these industry groups, but is highly
controversial with creators, and not supported by users. Industry
lobby groups such as the Canadian Recording Industry Association
(CRIA) can no more legitimately claim to politically represent the
interests of creators than the owners of the major banks can claim to
politically represent the interests of people who have bank accounts.

Thousands of Canadians, including hundreds of people who are in
creative or innovation industries, have signed the “Petition for
Users’ Rights” which articulates a more balanced vision. Creators
support this balance as they realize that creativity builds on the
past. In order for there to be a future generation of creators we
must limit the control of past creator or non-creator copyright
holders.

English Petition text
http://www.digital-copyright.ca/petition/petition_en.pdf

French Petition text
http://www.digital-copyright.ca/petition/petition_fr.pdf

More information on the petition
http://www.digital-copyright.ca/petition/

Do you support this balanced vision?

The Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic (CIPPIC) has
also sent questions to each of the parties.

http://www.cippic.ca/en/projects-cases/election-2006/

Could you offer your own thoughts on these questions? What you have
to say on these issues is important to my decision of who to vote
for.

Sincerely,
Myownbiggestfan

Of course, mine had my real name on it.
from Boing Boing as usual.