The Conference Board of Canada — a supposedly independent think tank that took Canadian tax-money to produce a report on the "Digital Economy" that plagiarized press-materials from the US copyright lobby — ignored conflicting evidence that an independent legal expert produced after they paid him to investigate the subject.
In other words, they went into this project knowing what conclusions they wanted to draw, and ignored everyone — even their own researchers — who had anything different to say.
What the Conference Board does not mention in its defence (nor in the report) is that it actually commissioned a study on the copyright issues from an independent Canadian legal expert. That report was completed by Professor Jeremy deBeer, a colleague at the University of Ottawa and frequent contributor to the Globe and Mail on copyright matters.
Professor deBeer has just revealed his involvement and posted a working paper based on his report submitted to the Conference Board of Canada. It turns out the deBeer was precluded from using the work for 12 months, a period that concluded today. It is immediately apparent that the deBeer paper arrived at very different conclusions from the IIPA and the Conference Board.
Conference Board Ignored Independent Study Commissioned For Digital Economy Report
