Copyright Scholar Kicked Out Of Canadian Copyright Panel
Found on Techdirt on Sunday, 27 April 2008
US entertainment industry interests have been pushing for quite some time to get stronger copyright laws in Canada, despite plenty of questions about why they're needed.
Knopf was going to do a presentation explaining why Canadian copyright law is already stronger and better than US copyright law, and why the US ought to be copying Canada's law, rather than the other way around. However, Knopf believes that PPF was pressured to remove him from the schedule, including removing him from a panel where he planned to debate these issues with a registered lobbyist of the entertainment industry.
So he's correct, because if Knopf was wrong, the industry would have gladly taken him apart in front of the whole world.