Friday, December 22, 2006

Vive la France

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There's an interesting decision reported on in the IHT picked up on Michael's BNA bulletin today. It's always dangerous to rely...
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Wednesday, December 13, 2006

No copyright bill this year...

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Today was the Ides of December. There was no copyright bill. The House of Commons is now in recess until January 29, 2007. So, there won...
Wednesday, December 06, 2006

Canadian Documentarians on Copyright

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The Documentary Organization of Canada , ("DOC") which speaks for hundreds of Canadian documentarians, issued a package in anti...
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Gowers Day

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The Gowers Review is available here. I haven't gone through it yet - but these recommendations seem interesting... Flexibility Recommen...
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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