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Meanwhile, it's pretty funny that I'm not supposed to have an opinion on this because I simultaneously earn too much from writing and earn too little from writing. Maybe there's a sweet spot that entitles you to speak on this issue. I'll go out on a limb and say it's exactly CAD22,523.19.

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  Meanwhile, it's pretty funny that I'm not supposed to have an opinion on this because I simultaneously earn too much from writing and earn too little for writing. Maybe there's a sweet spot that entitles you to speak on this issue. I'll go out on a limb and say it's exactly CAD22,523.19.

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  @jkdegen No, John. The person I was replying to implied that the only reason I objected to this video was that I didn't earn any money from writing and was supported by my spouse. This is not only an ad hominem, it's also factually inaccurate. As I pointed out, the vast majority of my income come...

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  @jkdegen No, s/he was saying that the teachers in the district

  a) Must opt into the AC

  b) Must surrender their statutory fair dealing rights to do so

  In other words, they are required to pay for uses that, by statute, should be free.

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  @chthonical So, you're saying HB Fenn's problem was too much unlicensed copying? And not, say, the Tories turning a blind eye to Hachette's decision to go direct to Canadian booksellers from outside the country?

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  @jkdegen No, Larry didn't come as a guest speaker. The syllabus is trivially googlable, and there's a full list of speakers (none of whom were compensated).

  And once again, you appear to be missing the fact that I the argument that spouses' income are relevant to this discussion isn't mine -- in...

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  @chthonical I sold 100,000 hardcovers of Little Brother. I received a mid-six-figure advance for Pirate Cinema. I've had NYT bestsellers in 2008 and 2009. My books have been optioned for film, turned into stage productions, and sold in 20+ languages. And my wife has just quit her job to start a c...

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  @jkdegen No. I'm saying that if you want to disparage people based on whether and for whom their spouses work, then by your lights, I'm an unimpeachable source and Susan Swan is terminally compromised. Personally, i think that's a pretty stupid argument, but if you're going to make it, you should...

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@jkdegen Actually, Larry took the phrase from various people in the free culture movement and used it for the title of his book, which spawned a formal set of university and high school "Free Culture" clubs. I was the faculty advisor for one such when I was the Canada-US Fulbright Chair at the An...

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  @jkdegen No. I'm saying that if you want to disparage people based on whether and for whom their spouses work, then by your lights, I'm an unimpeachable source and Susan Swan is terminally compromised. Personally, i think that's a pretty stupid argument, but if you're going to make it, you should...

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  @chthonical I earn 95% of my income from writing. Meanwhile, one of the "authors" featured in this video is the partner of Patrick Crean, an exec with Thomas Allen Publishers. In other words, the critics you're damning are writers who support their families with words, the people in this video ar...

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  @chthonical I earn 95% of my income from writing. Meanwhile, one of the "authors" featured in this video is the partner of Patrick Crean an exec with Thomas Allen Publishers. In other words, the critics you're damning ear writers who support their families with words, the people in this video are...

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  @chthonical I earn 95% of my income from writing. Meanwhile, one of the "authors" featured in this video is the partner of Patrick Crean an exec with Thomas Allen Publishers. In other words, the critics you're damning ear writers who support their families with words, the people in this video are...

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  @jkdegen Writers have had no "wrestles" with journalists or critics. US writers have not wrestled with educators in the years since they got this exemption. Why would writers have to wrestle with educators? Are teachers more venal or less reasonable than Conrad Black or Rogers? Rather than dismis...

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  @jkdegen I don't know why you think it's two-faced to say that educators should -- along with journalists and critics -- be allowed to quote "non-significant" portions of creative works without permission. I learned to write in the Canadian school system from teachers who felt free to use handout...

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  @rhinoink That's just not true. Artists' works will be usable by educators inside the narrow band set out by the Supreme Court. Whomever told you that this was how the bill worked wasn't telling the truth.

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Right now, practically every sector of Canadian society can argue that their uses are fair dealing by showing that the use meets the criteria set out by the Supreme Court. The new exemption merely extends this narrow defense to education.

This video's alarmist rhetoric is totally disconnected f...

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  I'm a full time Canadian novelist and I support the education exemption because it bears no relation to the description presented in this video.

  The C-32 education exemption doesn't say "Schools can use all published material gratis." It says that educational use should be subject to the same 6-...

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