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Dear APLA colleagues, For your information, the CLA Copyright Working Group met again at the end of last week and worked on a letter from the Chair to Members of Parliament, exhorting them to consult with and respond to the Librarians in their respective constituencies through the summer months. GO to the CLA web page http://www.cla.ca for our updated press release and further related information on Bill C-61. Additionally, some APLA members may not be aware that Michael Geist, noted professor of law at University of Ottawa - and key note APLA 2008 keynote speaker! - has an interesting and informative blog on Copyright legislation. The Copyright Committee consults it regularly. Please check it out at http://www.michaelgeist.ca/ for Geist's daily, sometimes hourly, take on Canadian Copyright. A snippet from yesterday's offering as an example: "Today marks the first day of the House of Commons summer recess, yet there are just 61 weekdays until it is scheduled to resume on September 15th. In light of that numerical coincidence, I am planning to run a 61 Reforms for C-61 series by posting a new necessary reform to the deeply flawed Canadian DMCA each weekday thoughout the recess. Many of the proposed changes will unsurprisingly focus on the anti-circumvention provisions. The 61 day series will be aggregated here..." I will provide more CLA information as soon as it's available. I appreciate the feedback I am getting from many of you and am proud of the contribution I can make on your behalf to the Copyright Working Group. Thanks for your interest and support! Best, Jane Duffy -- -- Jane C. Duffy, M.A., M.L.S. Associate University Librarian Dalhousie University 6225 University Ave. Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 4H8 Ph: (902) 494-6005 Fax: (902) 494-2062 [log in to unmask]