Michael Geist

Although it is off the radar for most, and out of the public specter at this time, I am often explaining to businesses and individuals why a balanced copyright legislation is important in Canada. After the economy rights itself, and the Politicians settle down over their discussions for who should lead the country as our Government, the issue of Copyright will again surface.

For a great explanation of what it means to you as Canadians, I highly recommend watching this documentary entitled Why Copyright? from Michael Geist and Daniel Albahary, which allows various stakeholders in this discussion to explain why balanced copyright is important, and what implications it may have on all of us, it a DMCA style legislation is brought forward.

The film is also distributed in multiple formats at CopyrightVoices.ca which allows you do annotate, mashup, redistribute and create derivative works from the original film. Way Cool.

• Darren Mak's blog

Anyone who follows main stream media on a regular basis, probably has heard about the upcoming changes to Copyright legislation in this country.

For those who have not, the long and the short of it is that Canada has been preparing to update it's copyright legislation for many years under a few different governments. The recent string of news stories, have been brought about because the bill was supposed to be tabled this year, was put on hold, was added to the order paper in the House of Commons, and then put on hold again.

• Darren Mak's blog