tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20803105.comments2024-02-14T06:39:11.423-05:00EXCESS COPYRIGHTHoward Knopfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18321190334597129416noreply@blogger.comBlogger1006125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20803105.post-56049989672559031592018-05-03T09:35:34.870-04:002018-05-03T09:35:34.870-04:00This should motivate us to not only communicate ou...This should motivate us to not only communicate our displeasure with this kind of decision but also support increased and sufficient CBC funding. You can't properly preserve important content like this without money.Matthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11382637543517859063noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20803105.post-33773123416313955962018-02-22T19:39:29.410-05:002018-02-22T19:39:29.410-05:00Luckily to google this message and surely it's...Luckily to google this message and surely it's a scam invoice. Unbelievable the group could run for such long years.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20803105.post-40670085474217516522017-10-04T23:06:28.037-04:002017-10-04T23:06:28.037-04:00Just received an invoice for $1,580 also.
Take a c...Just received an invoice for $1,580 also.<br />Take a copy of invoice and send to ic.contact-contact.ic@canada.ca<br /><br />Link to scam trademark info from Canada.ca<br />https://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/cipointernet-internetopic.nsf/eng/wr03926.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20803105.post-45231461742901948722017-09-26T19:21:56.025-04:002017-09-26T19:21:56.025-04:00Yes, they are still at it. Just throw it in the ga...Yes, they are still at it. Just throw it in the garbage! Don't get scammed!TLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17117885863540801200noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20803105.post-2048563194995272962017-09-25T16:26:54.847-04:002017-09-25T16:26:54.847-04:00They're still at it. Received two today for $1...They're still at it. Received two today for $1,580 each. They are now "INDAB CORP" at 157 Adelaide Street West, Suite 443.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20803105.post-1196322533467462932017-09-23T15:06:45.080-04:002017-09-23T15:06:45.080-04:00The trick is to do NOTHING.
No responses. No retu...The trick is to do NOTHING.<br />No responses. No return calls. No replies.<br />Give them silence and let them punch themselves out.<br />They sent me "infringement" letters for almost 2 years... then just went away. Do nothing -- and they will disappear.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20803105.post-48788593671443373862017-08-30T15:27:53.681-04:002017-08-30T15:27:53.681-04:00It is astonishing to me - and yet another example ...It is astonishing to me - and yet another example of the administrations' disdain for the very people who supply them with jobs - that neither York nor Western consult with the leading experts on Copyright in Canada who are within their own faculties - and who despair at York and Western's ridiculous interpretations of the law. How many times has the Supreme Court cited David Vaver? Carys Craig? Samuel Trosow literally wrote the book on Copyright - and in an accessible format that even a layperson can find accessible and easy to understand. Perhaps someone should gift it to Western's administration...Lisa Macklemhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11520991485947597912noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20803105.post-68214068712236164462017-07-12T19:37:53.364-04:002017-07-12T19:37:53.364-04:00Your commentary/reflections?Your commentary/reflections?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20803105.post-23063260972754334172017-07-12T12:24:35.651-04:002017-07-12T12:24:35.651-04:00Oh wow - this is totally the opposite of the way I...Oh wow - this is totally the opposite of the way I thought it would go. I thought the SCC was very clear that there was latitude in the fair dealing exemptions that accommodated much if not all of what AC was claiming. This is going to send a major chill in universities and impede access to education, and makes a mockery of fair dealing doctrine. The SCC really should grant leave for this appeal ASAP. A very sad day for user rights, nevermind respect for the basic bargain and theory of copyright in Canada.Grad Studentnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20803105.post-40104388199277440162017-04-10T16:55:52.951-04:002017-04-10T16:55:52.951-04:00Pleadings can be found here: http://excesscopyrigh...Pleadings can be found here: http://excesscopyright.blogspot.ca/2013/09/york-university-finally-files-statement.html <br /><br />The Federal Court normally rules within six months - but this was a very long hearing with lots of evidence and three days of final argument. <br /><br />HPKHoward Knopfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18321190334597129416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20803105.post-74500306945309490412017-04-08T12:32:45.238-04:002017-04-08T12:32:45.238-04:00"Of course, we still await Justice Phelan'..."Of course, we still await Justice Phelan's ruling on Phase I of Access Copyright's litigation against York University (oral arguments completed in June, 2016) - in which York's fair dealing guidelines were put on trial."<br /><br />Is there any indication when this ruling might come out - not sure how long it typically takes for these types of cases. I'm surprised this case has not garnered more mainstream attention - the implications go beyond just copyright nerds. If you know of any online copies of the pleadings or factums, can you link to them? Thanks.<br />(Sorry if this is a duplicate post - the first one just disappeared into Google ether.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20803105.post-44572677471312721622017-04-06T14:37:34.045-04:002017-04-06T14:37:34.045-04:00"Changing the lack of moral rights protecti..."Changing the lack of moral rights protection in the United States requires serious conceptual and legal changes. It requires compromising the purity of American copyright tradition. " Dr. Lior Zemer http://www.bu.edu/law/journals-archive/bulr/volume91n4/documents/zemer.pdf <br /><br />Martin Gladu Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20803105.post-88317755002036234542016-10-27T22:11:28.602-04:002016-10-27T22:11:28.602-04:00I also received an invoice today. Of course it is...I also received an invoice today. Of course it is a scam, I google it and I was surprised to see from the comments above for how long they have been in business: 8 years! Did anyone report them? I think to RCMP and BBB. Carmenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07209625509922070760noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20803105.post-58833376013853378052016-04-12T11:39:44.423-04:002016-04-12T11:39:44.423-04:00Thanks, Howard, for suggesting some Canadian estim...Thanks, Howard, for suggesting some Canadian estimates of the copyright term-extension costs that the TPP will incur.<br />One of the core arguments of the New Zealand study is that copyright term extension poses a net economic cost, not a net benefit, to New Zealand because New Zealand is a "significant net importer of copyright-protected works" (7). The economic benefits of the TPP's copyright term extension would mainly go to IP rights-holders, and since NZ consumes more IP than it produces (i.e. is a net importer), term extension would not economically benefit that nation. <br />That argument therefore extends to other signing nations that are net importers of IP - including Canada. Here are a couple of sources of evidence that show Canada is a net importer of IP.<br />Worldmapper.org's map visualization of royalty and license imports uses older data (2006) but helpfully highlights nations that are major importers of IP:<br />http://www.worldmapper.org/posters/worldmapper_map100_ver5.pdf<br />Canada ranks 6th - right below New Zealand - as an IP importer. <br />Contrast that image with Worldmapper's corresponding visualization of the world's major IP exporters:<br />http://www.worldmapper.org/posters/worldmapper_map99_ver5.pdf<br />On this map, the world's biggest IP exporter is far and away the USA - which of course is also the nation that's pushing this TPP deal on its trade partners like Canada. <br />So Canada is a major IP importer, but is it a *net* importer? The IP export map doesn't show Canada at all, from which we might infer Canada is indeed a net importer.<br />But we get more specific evidence that Canada is a net importer of IP from Statistics Canada. See Stats Can's table of International transactions in services, commercial services by category:<br />http://www5.statcan.gc.ca/cansim/a26?lang=eng&retrLang=eng&id=3760033&&pattern=&stByVal=1&p1=1&p2=31&tabMode=dataTable&csid=<br />This table's data for "Charges for the use of intellectual property" show a consistently negative balance from 2010 to 2014. Therefore, Canada is a net importer of IP (which we might have already assumed from the nation's elaborate cultural policy toolkit).<br />And since Canada is a net importer of IP, then the TPP will be as significant a net cost to the Canadian economy as it stands to be for New Zealand.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20803105.post-49118329566812848062015-11-09T11:46:39.245-05:002015-11-09T11:46:39.245-05:00In the nerd community, it was very non-obvious wha...In the nerd community, it was very non-obvious what an ISP could or should do, and the discussion at the time, including learned discussion, was not particularly helpful. <br /><br />I for one am grateful for the efforts of CIPPIC, and for the truncated efforts of Tek Savvy. That the court eventually chose to watch the process with great care was, IMHO, a small but very worthwhile victory for privacy in an electronic world where privacy and security of the person are at risk.<br /><br />In future, I hope ISPs will consider the course you advise, and act for themselves and for their customers. I also hope the accused persons will speak up, something that appears not to have happened in this case...Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16930520917352746721noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20803105.post-41453835711174958582015-07-02T17:52:15.128-04:002015-07-02T17:52:15.128-04:00I received an invoice today - July 2 2015 from the...I received an invoice today - July 2 2015 from these people for $1,575.00 and it says that my registration was filed March 18 2014 and they want me to pay to cover it until 2017. <br />When you register a trademark it is yours... forever. You don't pay every year.<br />Andyes - no phone number is given just a fax number which is not a Canadian number <br />What a scam!! Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20803105.post-40789835930159914562015-06-02T20:54:52.461-04:002015-06-02T20:54:52.461-04:00some other considerations
determine whether diffe...some other considerations<br /><br />determine whether different legal entities are claiming copyright in the same image ie masterfile and visualphotos.com - may be that masterfile has an agency agreement with VP but VP claims copyright in the image. You cannot have 2 different entities claiming the same rights, otherwise it is not exclusive and then neither party can sue if I understand the law in Canada correctly<br /><br />Secondly, mitigation - I find it hard to believe that a stock agency always seems to claim 3 years of infringement in Canada - they use Picscout that has the ability to troll the internet quickly. I suspect the stock agencies sit on claims and then attempt to maximize damage claims. Claims in Canada seem to be limited to when the agency knew OR ought to have known of the infringement - I am not aware that this has been tested in the courts in Canada<br /><br />Thirdly, amounts claimed. If an agency offers deep discounts on its website as a promotion for image purchase ie licensce what is the cost the agency can claim as actual damages? Again not court tested but an interesting consideration.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20803105.post-84708487942134961872015-05-23T17:32:26.826-04:002015-05-23T17:32:26.826-04:00Comment #1: Will this be decision be appealed? Acc...Comment #1: Will this be decision be appealed? Access has almost nothing to lose in this instance. <br /><br />Comment #2: I am pondering the implications on this in the post-secondary example. Have any univerities signed on to the "discount rate" offered by Access? Given this decision, that "discount rate" does not seem like much of a discount at all...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20803105.post-76542413876851749982015-02-28T13:58:33.483-05:002015-02-28T13:58:33.483-05:00No ruling yet that I know of. I'll update as s...No ruling yet that I know of. I'll update as soon as it's available.<br />HPKHoward Knopfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18321190334597129416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20803105.post-87611112891376458942015-02-28T13:38:14.598-05:002015-02-28T13:38:14.598-05:00Hi there I was wondering if there had been any upd...Hi there I was wondering if there had been any updates on this case in regard to voltage pictures having to pay "reasonable costs". Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14475667926809534207noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20803105.post-56266126769434084222015-01-30T21:13:37.617-05:002015-01-30T21:13:37.617-05:00Well, now over a year since this statement by the ...Well, now over a year since this statement by the Copyright Board. Complete status quo. No idea what happens next....Sean Maguirenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20803105.post-1056809836739909932014-10-10T17:11:17.124-04:002014-10-10T17:11:17.124-04:00Thank you.Thank you.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20803105.post-8306693345444109682014-08-11T11:55:33.837-04:002014-08-11T11:55:33.837-04:00You'd think this might inspire SOCAN and Re:So...You'd think this might inspire SOCAN and Re:Sound to at least argue that 90.3 AMP should pay higher tariff rates because they are making increased use of those collectives' repertoire songs? As to those groups' silence regarding the creative infringement that AMP's actions represent; curious but not entirely surprising. Hopefully someone will speak up at some point.<br /><br />I agree on a copyright exception for Anna Russell's work. Similarly, to my knowledge Victor Borge never received any complaints about his comic treatment of classic tunes. Maybe talent makes some difference in these things...dolemitehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14456633597725166739noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20803105.post-4060526898340396232014-08-07T15:14:22.250-04:002014-08-07T15:14:22.250-04:00Love the title, glad you trademarked it.Love the title, glad you trademarked it.dolemitehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14456633597725166739noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20803105.post-4058083163660921022014-07-25T15:13:26.739-04:002014-07-25T15:13:26.739-04:00Just got one here in MEXICO. Beware of these "...Just got one here in MEXICO. Beware of these "payment reminders"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com