Pascal Charest - blog d’un consultant en logiciel libre

Yesterday, I had the chance of being present at the talk of one of the best canadian law activist speaker Michael Geist. He talked about the, now on-hold, Canadian bill C-61 that imposed a copyright law reform. “Reform” being the important word, not “update” or “review” ; reform.

The talk was great and focused on “digital advocacy” and how copyright law changes could leave us stranded - without the very means that were used to fight C-61, how digital democracy is being built around tools that could be outlawed though law gimmick.

But this rant is not about Michael Geist or his presentation, which, again, was very good and will soon be available - it’s about pseudo-scholars plaguing this kind of conference. I’m sorry but I really can’t stand people asking 5 minutes question ending in “Am I right?” Especially when this question was a summary of the last 75 minutes presentation… Arggg. Please, getting a job offering public recognition of your mental skill is easy - very easy - don’t do that while other people are interested.