Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Here we go again... more unvalidated lies from Big E

More news on the Canadian Copyright front. This time, the Conference Board of Canada is called out by Michael Geist for literally copying the evidence in their report directly from American entertainment industry lobby's play book - at taxpayers' expense. Worse, the evidence they cite is shredded to bits by Michael piece by piece. You may as well skip over the huge table of plagiarism examples to the end of the article.

I will here to fore refer to the entertainment industry as 'the Big E'. With apologies to my friend Ernest.

[update] CBC news carried this story. An even more interesting display of solidarity exists in the comments to the story itself by readers.

[update 2] Not only did the report from The Conference Board of Canada plagiarize material from the US copyright lobby, it ignored conflicting evidence from an independent legal expert they paid.

[update 3] They recanted. Boo ya!

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