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When Copyright Goes Bad: A2K film launched
20 Apr 2010
Copyright rules no longer do what they are supposed to do. They
have gone bad. When Copyright Goes Bad is a new short film
introducing the renegotiation of copyright and is for anyone
interested in how copyright is affecting consumers.
This is a film about how copyright has become one of the most
important consumer issues of the digital age. Why corporate
lobbying risks criminalising the actions of hundreds of thousands
of people. And what the future holds for the fight for fairer
copyright laws.
It features some of the key players in the copyright debate
including Fred Von Lohmann - Electronic Frontier
Foundation, Michael Geist - University of Ottawa
Law School, Jim Killock - Open Rights Group, and
Hank Shocklee - co-founder of Public Enemy.
Watch the film... You can watch, copy
and adapt When Copyright
Goes Bad for free, as long as content is
attributed and the same Creative Commons licence is used. Visit
http://www.youtube.com/consumersintl
for the film in English, French and Spanish.
See also... Read more on the Access to
Knowledge A2K network site; have your say on copyright
on the A2K blog; comment on consumer issues
on the Consumers
International blog.