Tuesday, August 22, 2006

Ringtones - Observations on the 6% Solution

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I’ve now read the Copyright Board’s Ringtones decision of August 18, 2006 . Here are some observations. 1. It’s not obvious that any or all ...
Friday, August 18, 2006

Ringtones and the Copyright Board's 6% solution

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Fourteen months after its hearing of the inaugural “ringtones” tariff filed by SOCAN, and based upon a lengthy interrogatory process that be...
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Tuesday, August 15, 2006

MY SONY (tm) STORY

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Last year, SONY visited the Rootkit DRM fiasco upon consumers of many of its CDs. This allowed various very serious and even lethal comput...
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Captain Copyright - Confusion, Confession or Confrontation?

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Captain Copyright is asking for your help. In the course of an unusual and somewhat apologetic and confessional " statement " tha...
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Friday, August 11, 2006

SFU Snafu

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I was alerted recently to an outrageous example of what I call “Copyright Correctness” - or “respect for copyright” gone mad. This concerns ...
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The University of Calgary Conference on Ethics, Creativity and Copyright

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These are some notes from the University of Calgary’s conference on Ethics, Creativity and Copyright held in Calgary and Banff on August 3...
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Thursday, July 27, 2006

Excess in Anton Piller Orders

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A dynamite decision from Justice Binnie and the Supremes today in the case of Canadian Bearings v. Celanese Canada. A major Toronto law firm...
Tuesday, July 25, 2006

ET Come Home...Hopefully Not To Close to CDN Copyright Law

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Some professors at Dalhousie have published a provocative and readable paper on the very complex and very important subject of extraterritor...
Monday, July 24, 2006

DOHA Dead?

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The DOHA round of WTO trade talks appears to be dead. Not even D.O.A. Dead before getting that far. The developing countries had hoped to r...
Wednesday, July 19, 2006

Classical Music Composers and Performing Rights Societies

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Here's a very interesting article by an American law student with some musical background - whose name happens to be Amanda Scales. I...
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Tuesday, July 18, 2006

Exploiting Kids as Copyright Cops

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There's a scary story in today's NY Times about how the Hong Kong government is somehow getting Boy Scouts and other kids in unifor...

G8 Lobbying

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The G8 has issued a declaration entitled Combating IPR Piracy and Counterfeiting. This declaration was the result of a well-orchestrated e...
Monday, July 10, 2006

More Margaret Atwood on Copyright

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A certain vigilant Easterner has brought Ms. Atwood's latest pronoucements to my attention. Canada’s "Queen of CanLit" and co...
Tuesday, July 04, 2006

Captain Copyright's Contender

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Captain Copyright now has a contender when it comes to pernicious propaganda. And it’s none other than the Law Society of Upper Canada (“LSU...
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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...