CBC - Licensing YOUR Tax Dollars - The Nose of the Camel

Cameron McMaster has just posted an excellent in-depth article on how the CBC (yes, your taxpayer-funded national broadcaster) is now using an American company (iCopyright) to attempt to extort huge amounts of money from me and other web authors, bloggers and commentators for use of anything from their site. 

Not only are they trying to double dip in this - they are trying to enforce American Copyright law on a Canadian regarding content created and published in Canada!

And we're not just talking pennies here either! They want a monthly fee of $250! (annual $500) just for one article!!!!

Even if you think you're going to post "part" of an article - they want you to pay as if you were posting the whole article - so "Fair Dealing" is no more (Fair Dealing allows abstract for commentary and reporting in Canada) as far as CBC is concerned.

The Nose of the Camel is not just poking into the tent of radical copyright changes - it's damned near all the way in the tent in this case.

Personally I think CBC should be removed from the public tit and made to stand on its own, especially if it is doing things like this.

OK - I think we should seriously consider boycotting CBC. I'll stop listening to Radio 2, watching Hockey Night in Canada and reading anything they have on their website.

I'll also send a note to my MP and tell them why.

How about you?