[A2k] and a new Geist & Albahary movie: Why Copyright? - The Movie

[Manon Ress]

A year after launching the "Fair Copyright for Canada Facebook group,"
Michael Geist has just released a new film that explores why copyright
emerged as such a high profile issue.

"Why Copyright? Canadian Voices on Copyright Law," produced by Michael
Geist  with Daniel Albahary, features a wide range of Canadian voices
- artists like Gordon Duggan of Appropriation Art; writers like award
winning science fiction author Karl Schroeder; musicians like Wide
Mouth Mason's Safwan Javed; business people like Nettwerk Record's
Terry McBride, Lulu.com's Bob Young, and Skylink Technologies' Philip
Tsui; government appointees like Privacy Commissioner of Canada
Jennifer Stoddart and Ian E. Wilson, the Chief Librarian of Canada;
and many, many more.

Given the emphasis on the benefits of the Internet as a distribution
channel for creators, the film is available in multiple ways online at
newly designed page located at http://www.copyrightvoices.ca.

These include streamed versions:

A full version at Blip.tv
<http://blip.tv/file/1513205/>

An annotated version at YouTube
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTFEwXi1Pnk>

A version for sub-titling at Dot-Sub
<http://dotsub.com/media/cdd2f6d7-d101-4142-b18c-3ad11ba79193>

In addition, the full DVD can be downloaded using BitTorrent.  It's at
<http://www.mininova.org/tor/2054674>

Enjoy!