Wednesday, November 22, 2006

DMCA Exemptions

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The U.S. Register of Copyrights has just issued some useful exemptions to the DMCA - as she has limited power to do. More - much more - is ...
Monday, November 20, 2006

PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEES AND COPYRIGHT

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I am somehow assuming, though not conceding, that the Government is going to ignore, for the moment, my call for a special judicial copyrig...
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Friday, November 17, 2006

CMEC & Quebec

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It seems that some prominent Quebec publisher spokespersons are opposed to the CMEC special exception for educational use of the internet. ...
Monday, November 13, 2006

Time out for a commission on the future of Canadian copyright?

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I have an op-ed in today's Hill Times - which is an influential weekly publication for those who work on, in or around Parliament Hill ...

Better never than late?

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I thought I had traveled back in time - but it's today's story. One of the band members of Procol Harum is claiming that he is a co-...
Friday, November 10, 2006

Constitutional Challenge to RIAA's statutory damage claims...

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From the brave and bold Ray Beckerman - who fights the RIAA: In UMG v. Lindor , Judge Trager has granted Ms. Lindor's motion to add a d...
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Monday, October 30, 2006

CRIA Rebuffed from the Bench

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CRIA has just suffered a decisive setback in the Federal Court of Appeal. Earlier this year, I blogged about how CRIA objected to its Class ...
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Monday, October 23, 2006

Canada's "International Obligations"?

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On October 2, 2006, a senior official from the Department of Canadian Heritage, spoke as follows to the Canadian Heritage Committee of the H...

Copyright Board decision on NRCC Background Music Tariff

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The long awaited Copyright Board decision on NRCC’s proposed background music tariff was released on October 20, 2006. Although the Board a...

CAB Gets SOCAN + NRCC radio increase sent back to CB by FCA

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On October 14, 2005 the Copyright Board gave SOCAN and NRCC an increase in the tariff payable by commercial radio stations amounting to abou...
Saturday, October 21, 2006

Be Prepared

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The Hong Kong progoganda perversion of the Boy Scout movement is spreading straight to LA. According to the Washington Post: Scouts will b...
Wednesday, October 18, 2006

Ringtones REDUX - US & Canada compared

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Here’s an update of my earlier posting and a brief take on yesterday’s American decision. The US Register of Copyrights has just rendered ...
Friday, September 22, 2006

CIPPIC SLIGHTLY SWEETENS SOUR SONY SETTLEMENT

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My esteemed client, CIPPIC , fearlessly represented by my esteemed former Queen’s student Jason Young , appeared at the settlement hearing i...
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Thursday, September 14, 2006

SONY Settlement Unsettling?

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The almost but not quite done deal of the SONY class action settlement process in Canada is raising some seriously troubling questions. Mic...
Friday, September 08, 2006

CRIA + CMEC = COPYRIGHT + CONTROVERSY

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RUMOURS OF CONTROVERSY: The summer is almost over. And according to the polls, so too may be the honeymoon with the new Conservative govern...
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Thursday, August 24, 2006

CRTC - Hard cases make bad law...

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The stories today about an attempt to get the CRTC to block access to certain anti-Semitic websites in the USA that apparently go so far as ...
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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 ...