Saturday, April 28, 2007

Lessons from the $65,000,000 pants suit

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Should a Court award damages of US $65,000,000 for the loss of a pair of pants by a dry cleaner? This is not a hypothetical question and I’...
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Thursday, April 26, 2007

Copyright and Clearance - Licensing Creativity

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The fab HotDocs Festival in Toronto is underway. We had a really interesting panel on the copyright clearance culture, moderated by the acc...

ASCAP ruling - effect on Canada?

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Yesterday’s (April 25, 2007) decision of the District Court of the SDNY ("Southern District of New York"), which is probably the ...

The Continuing CRIA Copyright Canard

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There is another exchange underway between Michael Geist and CRIA's President Graham Henderson. Personally, I’m not neutral. I always ...
Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Fordham - 15th Annual Conference - some of the Canadian Content

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The 15th Annual Fordham IP conference has just taken place in New York City, where pirate DVD’s are almost as easy to buy as in Beijing - ac...

Lies, Damned Lies and US Trade Policy

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This AP story about China pointing to Canada could be amusing if there wasn't so much at stake. Wang Ziqiang, a spokesman for the Nati...
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Monday, April 16, 2007

CRIA and CMEC Train Wreck?

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As Michael Geist first reported yesterday (the Hill Times paper edition comes out on Sunday) , the Hill Times has a blurb today about at bi...
Monday, April 02, 2007

DRM becoming the "D" Word

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I listened to the live stream of the Apple/EMI news conference this morning from London. The good news: • Apple will be providing the op...
Monday, March 19, 2007

CBC, serious music and copyright - the connection

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I have sent the following open letter to the Heritage Committee. The connection to copyright is real - though not obvious. The Heritage Com...
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Wednesday, March 14, 2007

Vancouver 2010 - let the litigation begin!

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Attention advertisers, and artists of all kinds but especially documentarians, photographers, etc.... Get ready not to "use" such...
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Saturday, March 10, 2007

From the Boiler Room to Spamalot to SOCAN's Proposed Internet Tariff 22

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Michael Geist and Paul Kedfosky note that the SEC has suspended trading in 35 companies that use spam to tout stocks, an astonishing eigh...
Thursday, March 08, 2007

WIPO & Kyoto - Signature v. Ratification

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Further to John Ibbitson's March 7, 2007 column in the Globe and Mail, Michael has a good post today on the difference between signatu...
Wednesday, March 07, 2007

Canadian Copyright, Kyoto, Cacaphony, Conflation and Confusion

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I have never seen as much pressure, spin, and propaganda on Canadian copyright as I have in the last few months - climaxing in today’s story...
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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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