Friday, February 23, 2007

French IP Developments in English

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A bright young man named Nicolas Jondet has launched a promising website to keep English speaking readers up to date on on recent develop...
Wednesday, February 14, 2007

IIPA and USTR and s. 301

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A few quick points about the latest fulsome report from the IIPA: The IIPA is a lobby group - basically run by a Washington law firm that lo...
Tuesday, February 13, 2007

"Statistically Indistinguishable From Zero"

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Oberholzer and Strumpf - the 2007 version of their landmark paper is updated and published in the very prestigious juried Journal of Politi...
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Thursday, February 08, 2007

Campaigning about Camcording

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The Canadian Motion Picture Distributors Association (“ CMPDA ”) is the trade association for Hollywood in Canada. It’s the movie counterpa...

The Ecstasy of Influence - A Plagiarism

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Here is a very well written and researched detailed essay on copyright, '"open source" culture', borrowing, stealing, lov...
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Wednesday, February 07, 2007

A Victory for an RIAA Victim

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One of the 20,000 or so victims of the RIAA war against its members' best customers has just succeeded in getting an order for attorney...
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Friday, February 02, 2007

Praise the Lord and Kickoff the Litigation

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What could possibly be more important in the U.S. of A. than the Super Bowl and religion? You guessed it. Respect for copyright. Copyright ...
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Friday, January 19, 2007

WIPO Broadcasting Treaty - Update January 19, 2006

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The current "non-meeting" is over. There will be another meeting around June 18-22, 2007. There is supposed to be documentation re...
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A WIPO "Non-meeting"?

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There were a bunch of "non-papers" delivered by the Chairman that either were done at the very last minute or presumably could hav...
Thursday, January 18, 2007

WIPO Broadcasting Treaty - Update January 18, 2006

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Here's a key part of the Chairman's "non-paper" proposal today for a supposed signal based non-exclusive rights based appr...

The Sky Isn't Falling

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10% Growth in Overall Music Sales; Digital Track Sales Exceed 120% Growth TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nielsen SoundScan Canada, the entertainm...
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Wednesday, January 17, 2007

Copyright and Canadian Politics 2007

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Kady O'Malley has a rousing and provocative leading piece on copyright and Canadian politics in Macleans.ca quoting BoingBoing's ...

WIPO Broadcasting Treaty - Update Janaury 17, 2006

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The WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) is holding its First Special Session from January 17 to 19, 2007. The fi...
Monday, January 15, 2007

What to look for in 2007 in Canadian Copyright

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Here are some big copyright issues to track in 2007 - roughly in the chronological order in which I believe they will unfold. 1. Kraft v....
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Sunday, January 07, 2007

Public Domain Registry? McLean delivers another instalment...

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Almost a year ago, Access Copyright ("AC") announced - with great fanfare and some acclaim - a public domain registry project. So...
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 ...