Thursday, December 27, 2007

End of Music DRM in Sight

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Warner has now dumped DRM and made its entire catalog available DRM free on Amazon. Smart move, Edgar. See the very cutting edge Red Herring...
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Jeremy's "Lose Weight" resolution - Oz Not an Example

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As promised, Jeremy de Beer has outlined his second New Year's resolution ....to lose copyright weight, so to speak. He points out that ...
Monday, December 24, 2007

Antigua - The Mouse that Roared - and Won

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Antigua is now getting ready to pocket its winnings, its WTO victory against the USA. It can suspend its TRIPs IP obligations to the tune of...
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Jeremy de Beer on Copyright Commission...

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Jeremy de Beer also favours a copyright commission. He says: There's been a lot of buzz lately about the possibility of an official publ...
Saturday, December 22, 2007

The Gathering Storm

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See today's Globe and Mail: Ottawa accused of caving in to Hollywood on copyright ...

Trosow on Copyright Commission...

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Sam Trosow has a thoughtful comment on the diverse support for and momentum towards a copyright commission...along with a summary of other ...
Friday, December 21, 2007

Canadian Library Association Press Release

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Here's a very constructive press release from the Canadian Library Association, on behalf of its 21,000,000 users and 57,000 library s...
Thursday, December 20, 2007

Kraft #2 - Richard Gold's Op-Ed

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With the author's blessing, here's the whole piece. And it's very good indeed. Bravo, Richard! ********************************...
Wednesday, December 19, 2007

Kraft Redux

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Richard Gold has an excellent op-ed in today's Globe and Mail, unfortunately buried behind a pay wall. Kraft is suing Euro Excellence - ...

A ROYAL COMMISSION ON COPYRIGHT?

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I thank John Degen for pointing out that Christopher Moore of the Creators Rights Coalition has c ome out in favour of public inquiry , inde...
Friday, December 14, 2007

A PUBLIC DOMAIN PROJECT FOR WIPO?

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It’s no secret that, for a long time, it has not been the best of times at WIPO. For whatever reason, WIPO has been singularly unsuccessful ...

Copyright as "Sexy"

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Ivor Tossell of the Globe and Mail has a very provocative article today about how copyright is now “cool” and “sexy.” The irony is that th...
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Thursday, December 13, 2007

COPYRIGHT INTERRUPTUS

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It started. It stopped. It almost happened. Twice in one week. The tabling that was supposed to take place on December 11, 2007 didn’t ...
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Wednesday, December 12, 2007

A Draft Bill on the Hill?

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Sam Trosow is a Professor at Western. He has quietly become quite well respected in his few years in Canada. He brings with him experience...
Sunday, December 09, 2007

Canada, Israel, DMCA and Sovereignty

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Michael Geist points to a very perceptive post by Ariel Katz who is at U of T about Israel's recent new copyright law. According to Ar...
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Richard Stallman on CDN DRM ("Digitial Restrictions Management")

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The legendary “free software” ("free" refers to “liberty, not price”) proponent, Richard Stallman , has contacted me and expresse...
Friday, December 07, 2007

Notice of Copyright Bill

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It's official. Notice has been given. Stand by on Tuesday. HK
Wednesday, December 05, 2007

CAUT Copyright Position

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The CAUT (Canadian Association of University Teachers) has sent a very good letter dated November 30, 2007 about copyright reform to Ministe...
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Monday, December 03, 2007

Copyright, Calfs, Cows, and Cash

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Deirdre McMurdy delightfully takes the copyright wars back to what some say is the beginning, i.e. the struggle between St. Finnian of Movil...

Demise of DRM and Moving On

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More evidence of that the rumors of the death of DRM in the record business are not being excessively exaggerated can be found here at Reu...
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