There was a transcript put up from the Vancouver meeting. (I was surprised that WDE wasn't quoted
) Warning it's very long.
http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/008.nsf/eng/00060.html
I was surprised to see the following comment from the Songwriters Association of Canada representative. I agree with him.
Quote:
About DRM, I think it’s really important to separate TPM’s, the technical protection measures from rights information management, RIM. We have no use for technical protection measures and the only reason we feel that way is because consumers have no use for them. They’ve shown that technical protection measures will stop them from buying product that they otherwise would buy. They’ve also had terrible experiences with things that it’s done to their machinery and their gear and what have you. Technical protection measures, the circumvention of them should not be a crime, we don’t believe that that should be, I don’t know if crime is the right word, but illegal or infringement or any of those kinds of activities.
However, rights information management which, RIM’s which basically allows a creator to put the information about who the creator is, what the name of the work is, other matter, who publishes the work, things that are useful that could be embedded in digital files of music, of course, those are good things and we think that they should not, you should not be able to destroy them. We agree that they should stay in place. They’re important and they don’t stop anyone from enjoying the music so they should be left there.
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