Michael Geist says "Copyright Reform is Not a Spectator Sport" in his call to arms to Canadian academics.

"It is time for teachers, researchers, education administrators, librarians and students to speak out loudly against proposed policies that threaten the use of the Internet within Canadian schools by establishing unnecessary copyright license fees that seek to extend the term of copyright to the detriment of Canadian historians, and that introduce new legal protections that threaten to chill scientific and security research. They should further seize this opportunity by presenting a positive vision of reform that could benefit Canadian research and the broader community."

Actually, it's time UK academics also got involved. More power to his elbow.