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I don't usually pipe up about how embarrassingly moronic some of the copyright reforms coming out of the True North Strong and Free are, but Michael Geist's posting "Education Ministers' Copyright Proposal Needs a Rewrite" clearly explains another example of how a group of lobbyists, in this case the provincial Ministers of Education, can misrepresent the public good through doublespeak. Their Communiqué makes the Ministry of Truth look like clumsy amateurs.

Creating an exception for using public domain material in schools is doubleplussgood!