Talk:Project Gutenberg Canada

You guys have obviously not visited the Project Gutenberg Canada website lately.
Project Gutenberg Canada might have at one time been primarily about online book publishing, but visit the site today and you'll see it is nothing at all like Gutenberg.org. Project Gutenberg Canada is now a sort of Canadian Political Action group. Politics are priority one there. Here is what they think is most important to new visitors to their website:

"Our congratulations to Canada's new government !

Our respectful suggestions:

(1) Defend and nurture the public domain (2) Reject the "Trans-Pacific Partnership": its TWENTY YEAR copyright extensions are an act of cultural vandalism

(We apologize for the directness, but the question has to be asked: WHAT EXACTLY DOES LOOTING THE PUBLIC DOMAIN HAVE TO DO WITH FREE TRADE? ) Knowledge is power! The first step in blocking the Trans-Pacific Partnership is to learn more about this appalling "free trade" agreement. In January 2016, Prof. Michael Geist of the University of Ottawa launched a month-long series of articles, The Trouble with the TPP, which we recommend: Day 1: U.S. Blocks Balancing Objectives Day 2: Locking in Digital Locks Day 3: Copyright Term Extension Day 4: Copyright Notice and Takedown Rules Day 5: Rights Holders "Shall" vs. Users "May"

Day 6: The Price of Entry Day 7: Patent Term Extensions [with an emphasis on drug patents] Day 8: Locking In Biologics Protection [more on prescription drugs, expensive ones] Day 9: Limits on Medical Devices and Pharma Data Collection [entrenching corporate secrecy] Day 10: Criminalization of Trade Secret Law [corporations rule!]

Day 11: Weak Privacy Standards Day 12: Restrictions on Data Localization Requirements Day 13: Ban on Data Transfer Restrictions Day 14: No U.S. Assurances for Canada on Privacy Day 15: Weak Anti-Spam Law Standards

Day 16: Intervening in Internet Governance Day 17: Weak E-commerce Rules [Weak, as in why did they bother?] Day 18: Failure to Protect Canadian Cultural Policy Day 19: No Canadian Side Agreements to Advance Tech Sector Day 20: Unenforceable Net Neutrality Rules

Day 21: U.S. Requires Canadian Anti-Counterfeiting Report Card Day 22: Expanding Border Measures Without Court Oversight Day 23: On Signing Day, What Comes Next? Day 24: Missing Balance on IP Border Measures Day 25: The Treaties Within the Treaty

Day 26: Why It Limits Canadian Cultural Policies Day 27: Source Code Disclosure Confusion Day 28: Privacy Risks From the Source Code Rules Day 29: Cultural Policy Innovation Uncertainty Day 30: Losing Our Way on Geographical Indications

Day 31: Canadian Trademark Law Overhaul Day 32: Illusory Safeguards Against Encryption Backdoors Day 33: Setting the Rules for a Future Pharmacare Program Day 34: Prime Minister's Office Was Advised Canada at a Negotiating Disadvantage Day 35: Gambling With Provincial Regulation

Day 36: Why the TPP Could Restrict Uber Regulation Day 37: Breaking Digital Locks For Personal Purposes Day 38: Limits on Canadian Digital Lock Safeguards Day 39: Quiet Expansion of Criminal Copyright Provisions Day 40: Mobile Roaming Promises Unfulfilled

Day 41: ISDS [corporations suing governments] Rules Do Not Meet Canada's New "Gold" Standard Day 42: The Risks of Investor-State Dispute Settlement Day 43: Eli Lilly Is What Happens When ISDS Rules Go Wrong Day 44: Canada's Terrible ISDS Track Record Day 45: Limited Economic Gains for Canada

Day 46: Limited Employment Gains or Even Job Losses for Canada Day 47: Hits and Misses in the Agricultural Sector Day 48: U.S. Reserves Right to "Certify" Canada's TPP Implementation Day 49: Why Canada Must Wait For the U.S. to Move on the TPP Day 50 (Conclusion and series summary, with links): The Case Against Ratifying the Trans Pacific Partnership

How to tell our new government that you oppose the TPP and its copyright extensions: Canadians Get Their Chance To Speak Out Contact your Member of Parliament and the Minister of International Trade, the Hon. Chrystia Freeland with a simple message: Stop the TPP: NO COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS! And ask your friends to do the same." 50.71.189.81 (talk) 06:55, 24 April 2016 (UTC)


 * Scrap this (I'd delete it myself but it won't let me.) I'll just add a line to the article clarifying that the two orgs are not connected. 50.71.189.81 (talk) 07:00, 24 April 2016 (UTC)


 * Nearly five years later, the website still looks like this... A quote from the main page: "The U.S. won't share COVID-19 vaccines with Canada They should stop sharing their TWENTY-YEAR copyright extensions !! Detrumpification is like denazification 75 years ago, and involves getting rid of all the hateful things that Tr*mp has done in Canada..." It goes on and on. I'm surprised nobody has edited the Wikipedia page to reflect this.Iscargra (talk) 10:14, 16 March 2021 (UTC)