[Campaigns-l] Re: Campaigns-l Digest, Vol 1, Issue 12

[Janet Hawtin]

Maurice McGinley (Ovis) wrote:
> > > Further, I would like to see this used as a forum for policy
> > > development, where known agents with public agendas and agreed goals
> > > discuss and develop policy in the sunlight. ...An open-source policy
> > > incubator. The challenge will be to allow as many as possible to
> > > participate while maintaining the quality of debate.

Hello

I am new to the list so please excuse me if im OT.
I am interested in seeing a new policy developed to present at the
international treaty tables in opposition to the DMCA. I realise this
will be a complex Act and that it is far easier to develop a DMCA with
the narrow interests of a few publishers to support, but I feel that a
healthy copyright/copy/left/information rights Act is something which
bloggers and wiki folk have at least some common ground on. We know
the value of the commons.
There may be some groups around the world who have been working on
alternative paths. It would be great to be able to use this forum to
bring all those threads together in an internationally grounded
alternative to the DMCA.

Janet