Canadian politician plagerises Music industry to defend her independence

lostexpectation

saw this on boing boing though it was too good not to post on...

A Canadian MP who is accused of being in bed with entertainment companies published an editorial defending herself in yesterday's Toronto star, large passages of which were lifted almost verbatim from publications and speeches given by the Canadian Recording Industry Association.

http://www.boingboing.net/2006/01/22/hollywoods_canadian_.html

she lost her seat in the election though

so who our political irma shill here?'s

woodentopz

given the lack of response to this thread, we can safely assume none of them. phew!

Pa ElGrande

The recording cartel$ did not need to do that, their representatives helped draft the current law.

An enormous amount of work has been done by the parliamentary draftsmen, the officials, the Minister of State, IMRO, Mr. Dick Doyle and others who are experts in the field of copyright.

You can read the details here - http://historical-debates.oireachtas.ie/S/0159/S.0159.199905120004.html

There is a lot of information on historical-debates.oireachtas.ie about how the 2000 copyright and related rights act was passed.

Pa ElGrande

Somewhat O.T. Mr. Jonathan Whitehead, RIAA counsel for online-copy protection resides in Dublin, Ireland and has been the person filing many of the lawsuits and motions in the USA from here.

Example: http://www.eff.org/IP/P2P/RIAA_v_ThePeople/JohnDoe/20040702_Priority_Opp_to_EFF_Amicus-Whitehead_Decl.pdf

woodentopz

..what does that mean, i wonder...