Canadian Coalition for Electronic Rights
 

Yesterday the Conference Board of Canada was given the opportunity by Professor Michael Geist and the Canadian internet community to restore its integrity by retracting its report entitled Intellectual Property Rights in the Digital Economy which simply regurgitated language from the International Intellectual Property Alliance (software, movie and music lobby in the US). The Conference Board of Canada refused to seize this opportunity and instead chose to stand behind the plagiarized report.

The Conference Board of Canada stands behind the findings of its report, “Intellectual Property Rights in the Digital Economy”.

While Mr. Geist charges the Board with lack of attribution in several instances, in fact, only one citation is missing. We have corrected the missing citation in the report and we apologize for the oversight. All other instances, referred to in the blog, include sources. We also acknowledge that some of the cited paragraphs closely approximate the wording of a source document.

It would seem that a nerve has been struck at the Conference Board of Canada and their attention to this outrage over their plagiaristic actions which were funded by taxpayer money. $15,000.00 of your money to be exact.

“These are serious allegations. We take any charge of plagiarism seriously,” Rivers[Grahame Rivers, press secretary for John Wilkinson, Ontario's Minister of Research and Innovation] says. “We will be following up and look forward to hear what they [Conference Board of Canada] have to say about this.”

One can only assume that the shameful report released by the Conference Board of Canada is only a small part of a larger campaign being driven by US and Canadian lobby groups. A campaign intent on making whatever legislation is to follow Bill C-61 more palatable to the masses.

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