Comments on: Ridiculous copyright licensing – no thanks CBC

By: Scott Tribe

Scott Tribe — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 17:51:50 +0000

@Canajun, Very good point. I never looked at it from that angle.

By: Toe

Toe — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 03:13:13 +0000

I did not mean to point out anyone particular, who is using fair use, but going from blog to blog I’m seeing a dark pattern.

By: Chrystal Ocean

Chrystal Ocean — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 03:00:16 +0000

Boycott CBC? Good grief, no. Daphne and I will carry on as before. Fair use policy works for us.

By: Toe

Toe — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 02:45:03 +0000

Waah! I’m confused. Boycotting the CBC would seem to play right into Harpers plans, no? He hates it and doesn’t want to fund it anymore. He prefers CTV/et al to parrot his TP’s. To make CBC’s content not usable, to discredit it, don’t forget it is run by the Cons now. Blanketing CBC with complaints, well that also plays well for them, the big wide Canadian Con audience will say, no more public broadcasting, the people have spoken. Shite just look at the comments everywhere, Reaction, Reaction, Reaction! We need to mount a campaign of some sort. Meantime CBC doesn’t own the quotes they quote, do they? You bloggers could quote a quote by whoever and then just link to cbc for proof of quote. IOW’s ignore them for a time.
I am completely out of my depth here, but I do think the reaction so far is part of ‘the plan’, so to speak.

By: Greg

Greg — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:15:06 +0000

Time to boycott the CBC. Sorry Kady.

By: Canajun

Canajun — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 23:20:20 +0000

I think it’s a great business opportunity. I plan on heavy trolling of the Blogging Tories looking for breaches to report to iCopyright. A million bucks is a million bucks!

By: rww

rww — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 22:22:05 +0000

Sorry no time to comment here. I have to go find a CBC article to quote on my blog.

By: Skinny Dipper

Skinny Dipper — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 18:22:11 +0000

I’ll still go by “Fair Dealing.” I will quote a section of an article and provide links where necessary. What will happen if Harper’s Conservative Party posts something on its website that may be negative to itself? Would I be allowed to reproduce or link to it? How many words is a picture worth?

By: efarrer

efarrer — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 17:45:45 +0000

It is actually a logical attempt to stifle debate by the Tories. CBC is a trusted source quoted frequently by anti Tory groups. That said it won’t survive a court challenge. Fair use is still fair use.

By: Chrystal Ocean

Chrystal Ocean — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 17:44:02 +0000

Among the ironies for me… The linking policy on our blogs has been to hunt for – even WAIT FOR – CBC (or indy) articles on a news item that has come up, rather than write a post linking to Canwest media or CTV. In other words, we’ve been doing our level best to support our public broadcaster and independent media by sending people to them, not to their private competitors.

Our faces are red, from the slap across both cheeks.