{"id":197693,"date":"2008-01-17T12:09:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-17T17:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/17\/getting-ip-right-and-trying-to-avoid-the-oh-canada-cliche\/"},"modified":"2008-01-17T12:09:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-17T17:09:00","slug":"getting-ip-right-and-trying-to-avoid-the-oh-canada-cliche","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/17\/getting-ip-right-and-trying-to-avoid-the-oh-canada-cliche\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting IP Right, and Trying to Avoid the &#8220;Oh, Canada&#8221; Cliche"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Harold Feld asks, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wetmachine.com\/totsf\/item\/1001\">Someone tell me why Canadians seem to be so much smarter than we are, at least on the public policy fronts that I cover<\/a>?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The public policy fronts that he covers involve things like IP and network neutrality, and he is, in this case referring to the the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crtc.gc.ca\/eng\/welcome.htm\">Candian Radio-Television Commission<\/a>&#8216;s (CRTC) announcement <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crtc.gc.ca\/eng\/NEWS\/RELEASES\/2008\/r080115.htm\">that it is imposing new national ownership limits and cross ownership limits on its broadcast media<\/a>, and the political backlash that has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelgeist.ca\/content\/view\/2459\/1\/\">delayed a Canadian version of the DMCA<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The answer is actually far more depressing than the my friend Harold Feld, esq. would like to think: <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">The Canadians believe in public policy, and the United States does not<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>This is why someone like Michael Powell could make a statement that basically said that corporate profit was a public good, and not get tarred and feathered.<\/p>\n<p>In Canada, his phone calls would not be returned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harold Feld asks, &#8220;Someone tell me why Canadians seem to be so much smarter than we are, at least on the public policy fronts that I cover?&#8221; The public policy fronts that he covers involve things like IP and network neutrality, and he is, in this case referring to the the Candian Radio-Television Commission&#8216;s (CRTC) &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1067,1134,1109,1003,985,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communications","category-copyright","category-ip","category-philosophy","category-regulation","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197693"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}