We're running out of time to stop copyright tax
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- Published on Saturday, 08 December 2018 06:10
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Corporations are lobbying Parliament for a greedy wish list of revisions to the Copyright Act.
...A music tax on every smartphone. A tax on Internet use over 15GB a month. Website blocking for Big Business. Mandatory content filters for all user-generated content.
We're running out of time to stop them. Parliament will stop accepting comments from the public in response to these proposals on December 10. After that, it's in the hands of the committee—and the corporate lobbyists who influence its members.
OpenMedia has been on the front lines fighting the corporate takeover of the Internet through the Copyright Act review since last summer.
When Bell came out with a sweeping plan to censor and block websites, we rallied.1 When the music industry lobbied to tax our phones and our Internet usage, we fought back with ads and pushed thousands of public comments to Parliament.2
It's working. Our voices were so insistent that Parliament invited OpenMedia to speak about how these proposals would harm the free and open Internet.3
And we're not just fighting against corporate proposals for amendments to the Copyright Act—we're proposing some of our own, too.
We built an easy-to-use Internet tool to help visitors share some of their biggest priorities for a Digital Age Copyright Act—such as safe harbour rules that will keep ISPs from monitoring our content and strengthening the rights of the user so we can manage our own data.4
Now we just have a few more days to make sure our message to the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology is unmistakable—and loud enough to drown out the corporate lobby.
Will you donate to help OpenMedia's final push to protect the Internet in the Copyright Act review? All donations will be DOUBLED.
DOUBLE YOUR DONATIONThank you for your support,
Laura, and the whole team at OpenMedia
Footnotes:
[1] Canadian's rally against Bell's plan to censor the Internet: blogTO
[2] Canada’s Music Industry Proposes a $3.50 ‘Copying Tax’ on Every Smartphone: Digital Music News
[3] We took your voices to Parliament: Copyright edition: OpenMedia
[4] Have your say in the copyright consultation: Let's Talk Copyright
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