New episode of Search Engine: Who's copying who?

Wow Your Still Alive

Jesse,

Glad you where able to find a new home for this program. I've listened to everyone one of your programs. Cool.

== DWW

posted by DancesWithWords on 01 June 2009 at 4:34 PM

Keep your eyes out for the updated reports!

It appeared that Anne Golden didn't appreciate the "walks like a duck" comment. I found that the comment approached being a little disrespectful. However, the interview as a whole was quite interesting and entertaining. It'll be interesting to see if any updated reports are produced, or if the whole initiative will be scrapped. Of course, even with the current three reports being retracted, it's still quite possible (and likely) that they'll be referenced as good evidence by politicians, lobby groups and the media.

posted by Matematik on 02 June 2009 at 10:10 AM

Made my day

After listening to this report Jessie I can only rotflmao. I am left to wonder why nobody read the report before it was released.

posted by JazzmanJ on 02 June 2009 at 1:25 PM

Very good interview

I wish all journalists were courageous enough to say "that may be good enough for you, but it's not good enough for me".

As far as investigating the report: the only explanation I can think of for not wanting to find out the reason for such a credibility-destroying act, is if you already know the reason.

posted by brianary on 02 June 2009 at 9:58 PM

One of the authors of report comes forward: He was pressured

http://www.boingboing.net/2009/06/03/canadian-copyright-l.html

The funders of the report (Canadian copyright lobbyists) actively pressured him to come to the conclusions that they wanted to see. He asked to have his name removed from the report prior to publication - and Anne Golden called him to talk it over and then hung up on him.

But she seemed so nice in the interview!

posted by gordonmcdowell on 03 June 2009 at 1:39 PM

Welcome to TVO

A fan of your pod cast, very glad to see you are still producing.

posted by grantcul on 07 June 2009 at 9:25 PM

Is Canada trying to block a WIPO treaty to blind people's access to written material?

At the end of this episode Jesse mentions a treaty, Canada's position on the treaty, and an attempt to contact Canada's representative for an interview.

I wrote a blog article about my own intervention in getting in contact with Bruce Couchman, the person Jesse named. Unfortunately my emails and facebook messages to Jesse haven't been received yet, so I don't know if he plans to follow-up on this interesting issue.

Summary: From what I can see, Canada is not blocking the treaty, and that this issue has thus far been mis-reported.

http://www.digital-copyright.ca/node/5037

I understand there is a lot going on, even on Copyright given that tomorrow (Monday July 20'th) there will be further announcements about the consultation the Conservatives are holding on Copyright. There are a lot of things that Canada is doing wrong on Copyright, but we should still be as accurate as possible in our reporting. I still believe that this deserves an errata in some future episode.

posted by Russell McOrmond on 19 July 2009 at 11:53 AM