Thursday, March 30, 2006

Nervous about NAFTA & the Cancun Summit

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Some of us remember when Brian Mulroney and Ronald Reagan sang “When Irish Eyes are Smiling” in 1985. Mulroney offered up compulsory licensi...
Tuesday, March 21, 2006

DMCA - Right Minded Wisdom

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The CATO Institute is a rather right wing and rather prestigious Washington "think tank" that has occasionally published and done...
Monday, March 20, 2006

CRIA's Statistics & WIPO Ratification

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"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics." (Attributed to Benjamin Disraeli and Mark Twain) So, how shoul...
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Saturday, March 04, 2006

Excessive TPM & DRM - forfeiture as an antidote?

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A possible antidote to excessively intrusive and even harmful TPMs and DRMs (e.g. Sony’s Rootkit) and to excessively protective legislation ...
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Thursday, March 02, 2006

“Fallout" at the Copyright Board?

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Two significant players in Canada’s copyright scene have just conspicuously withdrawn in protest from two major Copyright Board hearings. Th...
Tuesday, February 28, 2006

Folie à deux?

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It looks like some folks in Australia is are having similar delusions to those of some Canadians - namely that schools should actually pay a...
Monday, February 27, 2006

CRIA Spinning on the WIPO Treaties

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Get ready for more spin about Canada and the WIPO Treaties as we approach Canada Music Week and the CRIA machine goes into high gear: A curr...
Sunday, February 26, 2006

Excess in Proposed WIPO "xcasting" treaties

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Sceptics about the proposed broadcasting and webcasting rights treaty being pushed at WIPO have much to worry about in terms of hopefully un...
Tuesday, February 07, 2006

More on Caution in the Classroom

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Michael Geist has contrasted the problems I have outlined in connection with "Copyrgiht Matters!" with the much more adventures...
Monday, February 06, 2006

Excess Caution

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Another example of Excess Copyright does not come from the collectives’ side but rather from users. It is Excess Caution in copyright - mos...
Tuesday, January 24, 2006

On Rhetoric the Morning After

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Mme Bulte lost her seat last night by more than 2,200 votes. In the previous election, she led by about 3,500. That’s a difference of almos...
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Thursday, January 19, 2006

M.P. Threatens to Sue Professor

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Hon. Sarmite Bulte, P.C., M.P.: "I will not be silenced by zealots like Michael Geist and political opportunists like Peggy Nash who ar...
Wednesday, January 18, 2006

Speaking of Smear Campaigns

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Sometimes we miss the forest for the trees. The Bulte imbroglio is morphing. The Creators' Copyright Coalition (CCC) is apparently shoc...
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Monday, January 16, 2006

More Excess Rhetoric - "apologists for piracy"

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The Creators' Copyright Coalition (which mostly consists of collectives and lobby groups) is entitled to defend the Honourable Sarmite B...
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Friday, January 13, 2006

Excess Rhetoric

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The Honourable Sarmite Bulte, former Chair of the Canadian Heritage Committee of the House of Commons under whose auspices the controversial...
Wednesday, January 11, 2006

Jack Granatstein – On Political Donations, Access Copyright & Bill C-60

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Prof . Jack Granatstein is a pre-eminent author, researcher, historian, political scientist, educator, and passionate Canadian. He has also ...
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Tuesday, January 10, 2006

ON EXCESS

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Moderation is a fatal thing. . . . Nothing succeeds like excess. Oscar Wilde 1854-1900 There is moderation even in excess. Benjami...
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