Canadian Coalition for Electronic Rights
 

Yet again Michael Geist, seemingly one of Canada’s only voices of reason on copyright related issues, has uncovered a rather shameful piece of plagiarism by the supposedly non partisan, non special interest Conference Board of Canada. The Conference Board of Canada recently published a report entitled Intellectual Property Rights in the Digital Economy and as Geist points out the report is:

a deceptive, plagiarized report on the digital economy that copied text from the International Intellectual Property Alliance (the primary movie, music, and software lobby in the U.S.), at times without full attribution.

As the Conference Board of Canada claims to uphold a standard of accountabilty, Canadians can make their voices heard and let the Conference Board of Canada know just what they think if this plagiarized, inaccurate tripe:

Anne Golden, President and CEO of the Conference Board of Canada: golden@conferenceboard.ca
Stephen Toope, Conference Board of Canada board member: presidents.office@ubc.ca
Indira V. Samarasekera, Conference Board of Canada board member: uofapres@ualberta.ca
John Wilkinson, Minister of Research and Innovation: jwilkinson.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org

Although Canada has come to accept this type of blatant and unsubstantiated ridicule from lobby groups and special interest groups alike, it is completely dis-heartening and downright pathetic to see supposed independent, not for profit Canadian entities taken their marching orders from Washington. One wonders, just how independent and not for profit the Conference Board really is now? Even with the profit, the Board is now irrelevant and meaningless. Now, what will be the next step for the Conference Board? Will they go into damage control mode or will they undermine the work of Canada’s foremost copyright voice and for that matter all Canadians, and simply stick their proverbial heads in the sand? Time will tell, however, time will not repair the lack of credibility will that will now be invoked when one speaks of The Conference Board of Canada.

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