Wednesday, June 28, 2006

Official Languages - When "Either" means "Both" or "Neither"

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As reported, on June 26, 2006 Judge Layden-Stevenson of the Federal Court ruled against my application for a declaration that the Heritage ...
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Wednesday, June 14, 2006

The Corruptibles

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A partial antidote to Captain Copyright's propoganda can be found in the very clever EFF campaign against current excessive lobbying ef...
Friday, June 02, 2006

The Supremes on Famous Trade-marks in Canada

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The Supreme Court of Canada has issued two brilliant decisions today which dismissed two appeals that would have - if successful - taken “f...

On Demand Take Down (Censorship) in Canada?

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The Globe and Mail is reporting a very strange aspect of the "APO Joe" $5,400 piggy bank scandal. Apparently, CIRA (Canadian Inte...
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Thursday, June 01, 2006

Linking to Access Copyright

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Michael has a good post on Access Copyright's Captain Copyright “information” website for young kids and their teachers. The content r...
Thursday, May 25, 2006

Knopf v. Speaker of the House of Commons - the Hearing

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My case against the Speaker of the House of Commons was heard yesterday in the Federal Court. Madam Justice Layden-Stevenson had clearly re...
Thursday, May 18, 2006

Copyright, Competition, Free Trade & Chocolate Bars

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The Supreme Court of Canada today granted leave to appeal in the very important case of Kraft v. Euro Excellence - in which Kraft had succe...

Language Issues in Parliamentary Committees

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Students of the ancient and arcane law and custom of parliament (lex et consuetudo parliamenti) and potential witnesses in the next round o...
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Friday, May 12, 2006

Dogged Attempts to Combat Piracy

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I'm not making this up. It's too bizarre to be made up. This motion picture industry initiative involves using specially trained bla...
Friday, April 28, 2006

Excessively Cautious Clearance Culture

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It's very hard these days to do documentaries. Excessive caution on the part of the E&O folks and the lawyers invovled are killing g...
Wednesday, April 26, 2006

MUSIC TO MY EARS - Enter the CMCC

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Less than two weeks after t he most influential Indies left CRIA (RIAA North), a who’s who of Canadian music stars has come out dead agains...
Thursday, April 13, 2006

CRIA - What Lies Ahead?

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Michael has a great blog entry on CRIA and the widely reported resignation from it by six of the leading Canadian Indies, including the le...
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Wednesday, April 12, 2006

Canada & Copyright: Rogue State or Role Model? Fordham IP Conference 2006

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I am pleased to advise that Canada will have about 75 minutes of fame at the 14th Annual Fordham International Intellectual Property Confer...
Tuesday, April 11, 2006

More Right Minded Wisdom

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There's been another libertarian shot at the DMCA, suggesting that the neither the French approach nor the American approach are right, ...
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Monday, April 10, 2006

Minister Oda - the Transcript

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Simon Doyle at the Hill Times managed to catch Minister Oda right after the throne speech. To her credit, she was gracious enough to give hi...

Bev Oda quoted on WIPO

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The Hill Times today reports as follo ws: The Hill Times, April 10th, 2006 POLITICS PAGE Conservative government to introduce copyright bil...
Friday, April 07, 2006

Supreme Court of Canada - Robertson v. Thomson

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There has been a truly extraordinary and quite possibly unprecedented development in the Robertson v. Thomson case in the Supreme Court of ...
Wednesday, April 05, 2006

Update on Access Copyright's Political Donation Policy

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I can now belatedly update an earlier posting following up on Jack Granatstein's correspondence with Access Copyright. Access is getti...

Throne Speech Sentence Scenarios

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Michael does some more analysis of the Speech From the Throne . He is quite right in one sense that it can be taken in whatever way people ...

Merger news - better late than never

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There was an important merger announcement over the weekend in the copyright advocacy and enforcement sector that that did not get the atte...