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		<title>Bill C-32 Response</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 23:48:59 +0000</pubDate>
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On June 2, 2010  the Conservative Government introduced proposed amendments to the Canadian Copyright Act.   The Copyright Modernization Bill is a 62 page document.   We&#8217;ve now read through this document carefully and have consulted with a number of experts.  We were also invited by the Government to take part [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Appropriation Art Submission</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 23:22:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today many artists and creators use, reproduce, appropriate and incorporate materials found within popular culture and society.  These raw materials reflect and embrace the world around us: snippets of film and TV,  radio spots, advertisements, news headlines, bits of text, characters, fragments of song&#8230;and so on.  Artists use this source material just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Copyright Consultations Commence</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 02:14:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Copyright Consultation process was initiated by the Conservative Government three days ago.  The process is described as &#8216;nation-wide consultations&#8217;.  The Conservative government say they want to &#8216;ensure that all perspectives are taken into account in an open and transparent process&#8217;.  The Appropriation Art Coalition would like to encourage Artists and Cultural [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stop Harpers Cultural Cleansing</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 20:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stephen Harper's contempt for culture has already cost him his majority government. The voters in Quebec have abandoned the Conservatives largely due to their stance on culture.  Stephen Harper's position that culture is “a niche issue for some” exposes how little he knows (or cares)about culture in the country he claims to be most qualified to lead. ]]></description>
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		<title>Appropriation Art Condemns Bill C-61</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 23:53:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today Harper's Conservatives introduced legislation that would make Canadian copyright the most repressive in the free world.  This, sadly,  is neither rhetoric, nor sensationalism.  

Many within the cultural community feared a draconian new legislation.  Bill C-61 surpasses those fears.   If passed Bill C-61 would make Canada the only democracy in history to have criminalized a recognized and legitimate art form.   An art form criminalized not for its content,  but for the process of its making.  Today the Conservative Government  erased much of the artistic discourse of the past 100 years. Today  (with TPM’s) the Conservative Government  locked Canadian culture firmly in the past.  

It is safe to say that every important contemporary art collection in the world contains appropriation art of some form. Every anthology of contemporary art, every periodical, every textbook  references and supports the practice of appropriation.  And now, in Canada, willfully ignorant politicians have ruled that a time-honoured, artistic practice and art form will be rendered illegal.  It is beyond shocking.  It is embarrassing.  

Copyright  is meant to nurture the rights of creators not suppress and criminalize artistic practice.  Copyright is meant to protect artistic work not define it.  It is not the responsibility of any government to legislate art.   Culture evolves through a dialogue between cultural institutions, educators, critics and creators - most of whom have dedicated their lives to culture.  Culture also evolves through a relationship with an audience; in this case an audience who have proven again and again that work involving appropriation generates excitement ...incites progress and change. Canadian artists who practice appropriation have been awarded our highest honours.  How ironic.   <a href="http://www.appropriationart.ca/bill-c-61-made-in-the-usa.htm">more</a>

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		<title>Canadian Bill Made In The USA</title>
		<link>http://www.appropriationart.ca/212.htm</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 22:28:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Harper government is set to introduce their newly 'Made-in-the-USA' Copyright Bill before the House stands for the summer.  While the majority of hard-working Canadians concerned with copyright are not privy to either the contents or the scheduling of this Bill (User groups , Librarians, Federation of Students, Academics, Appropriation Art etc)  it appears that the same cannot be said for Industry. Over the past weeks (and indeed months) a well choreographed series of scheduled ‘events’ has taken place by pro-American influenced organizations, Lobbyists, American Government officials and even President Bush himself. 
<a href="http://www.appropriationart.ca/212.htm">more</a>


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		<title>Basskin&#8217;s Little Thought</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Dec 2007 21:58:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently the TV program  The Agenda featured a debate (free on their website) entitled Copyright and Intellectual Property: Whose Rights? Whose Property?  The show featured David Basskin (Counsel to the Canadian Music Publishers Association), Michael Geist (Canada Research chair of Internet and E-commerce Law at the University of Ottawa), Mathew Ingram (Business and Technology writer for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Infringement Nation</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2007 20:23:18 +0000</pubDate>
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John Tehranian, Professor of Law, University of Utah has just published a paper entitled Infringement Nation: Copyright Reform and the Law / Norm Gap.
The paper details the massive void between copyright norms (what people do) and copyright law in the United States. Fueled by some of the most unbalanced copyright laws in the world Teranian [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obedience Training for Dogs</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2007 17:52:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Canadian Government Swayed by Rhetoric and False Statistics
Obedience training doesn&#8217;t solve all behavior problems, but it is the foundation for solving just about any problem. Training opens up a line of communication between you and your dog. Effective communication is necessary to instruct your dog about what you want her to do.  Dogs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Copyright and the Threat to the Public Domain</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2007 22:36:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AppropriationArt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gordon Duggan has written an essay for the Arts News Canada
 Copyright and the threat to the public domain.  
In March 2007 &#8220;Canada&#8217;s New Government&#8221; introduced Bill C-47. This is a bill which grants special rights and protections to the Olympics for their trademarks and copyrights. In a clearly American-influenced move, Bill C-47 makes [...]]]></description>
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