A week ago, I found myself writing a snarky email to Gillian Shaw about her article on the Conference Board of Canada’s “research findings” on the strength of Canadian copyright. I’m a huge fan of BoingBoing and Michael Geist, and I had been following their reporting on this quite closely. I’m going to put up the content of that email not because I’m especially proud of it (I consider it, more or less, to be giving in to a very seductive form of righteousness that myself and my fellow lefties like to indulge from time to time), but to show how much of “a believer” I was and am in a less-is-more approach to copyright reform. And I’m doing that to give you an idea of how much I did not want to get into the conversation I got into today regarding the latest allegations against the Conference Board of Canada, post fuck up. (And to be clear, they did fuck up. I just think we’re jumping the gun a bit as to how much they fucked up). On with the email, then…
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