BLOGGERS UNITE!: Blogger Labour Union - Huh?
August 8, 2007 · By Greg Farries
Ashley Heher writes on the rather bizarre suggestion by some lefty bloggers about forming a labour union:
In a move that might make some people scratch their heads, a loosely formed coalition of left-leaning bloggers are trying to band together to form a labour union they hope will help them receive health insurance, conduct collective bargaining or even set professional standards.
Dumbest idea ever…
I am not surprised. Then they will try to do what all other labour unions do: try to force out non-union labour. Part of the plan to collectivize (i.e. censor) the internets.
The article goes on and on without addressing how bloggers can have a union without an employer. How would we go on strike? By refusing to write on our blogs? Ha ha ha…
I suspect this concept is referring to bloggers that blog for Networks, not the blogger hobbyist.
On his own blog, Jeremy Wright the CEO of the blogger network b5media has a great post that digs into this. He is extremely qualified to speak to the topic and quite obviously has a vested interest in it as well.
http://www.ensight.org/archive.....-bloggers/
Canadian Bloggers also need to watch proposed ammendments to the Copyright Act as it attempts to bring itself up to the digital age. Right now, the Copyright Act has no authority over internet content, which is proving to cause issues in many places, especially for postsecondary insitutions and libraries. American copyright legislation has already been modernized to include electronic media and the internet, and therefore, the idea that professional bloggers own their work, just like a newspaper owns its content is not foreign to them, and therefore, by extention, makes the likelihood of professional bloggers banding together in order to control the use of their content a legal possibility.
The likelihood of a minority government introducing changes to the Copyright Act is very slim. It is too controversial at the moment, and the previous government had ammendments on the table when they fell, and therefore have very specific ideas about what they want.
All of this to say, Canadian bloggers can scoff at the idea, because we do not have the legal framework to back up the claim of ownership over our own internet content, but Americans live within an entirely different legal framework where copyright is concerned.
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I thought the lefties here in the US were deluded. I guess this will be part of the NDP platform when elections are called.
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