Thursday, January 29, 2009

Obama and NAFTA?

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This story is coming back. It seems that there is an effort in the US Congress to restrict all "stimulus" spending on iron, stee...
Tuesday, January 27, 2009

EU Sound Recording Term Extension Battles

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A major battle is brewing in the EU over term extension for sound recordings - from 50 to 95 years. The European Commission - ignoring the i...
Monday, January 26, 2009

Lobbying for Big Bucks

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Jeff Norquay, a prominent pundit and lobbyist with Conservative ties (he is a former Harper PMO Communications Director) is quoted in the H...

US - China WTO Dispute Continues

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The final panel report in the US - CHINA WTO dispute has been released , confirming mixed results in which both sides can claim victory. Th...

Is Three Strikes on The Way Out?

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Controversy continues about New Zealand's ill-conceived three strikes regime that is due to take effect on February 28, 2008. LIANZA , ...
Saturday, January 24, 2009

Vanocuver 2010 Olympic Games and London 2012 Olympic Games

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The legal and practical difficulties of stopping people from using the English language as intended (e.g. "Visit Vancouver in 2010 ...
Friday, January 23, 2009

McCullagh on MacBride

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Declan McCullagh has a story on President Obama's appointment of a senior BSA enforcer to a senior position at the Deaprtment of Justice...
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Tuesday, January 20, 2009

A Magic American Musical Moment

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A wonderful and auspicious inauguration of President Obama today included a magic moment of chamber music from a diverse and stellar ensembl...
Sunday, January 18, 2009

Three Strikes Regime Strikes New Zealand

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It seems that the Labour government of New Zealand has succumbed to entertainment industry pressure to enact a "three strikes" reg...
Saturday, January 17, 2009

Video on Proposed Term Extension of Sound Recordings in EU

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Here's an outstanding video from the Open Rights Group on the European Commission's determination to ignore all the reliable evide...
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Friday, January 16, 2009

Canada - EU FTA - Consultation Deadline January 20, 2009

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A possible Canada - European Union (“EU”) Free Trade Agreement (“FTA”) is in the works. For whatever reason, the Government is calling it a...
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Thursday, January 15, 2009

Blame It All on Bowie Bonds?

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There are some interesting stories being published blaming the current financial meltdown on - get this - David Bowie and his “Bowie Bonds” ...
Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Joel Fights Back & RIAA litigation live

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The RIAA - once eager to use the courts to create a great chill about downloading and "making available" - is now trying to suppre...

On "strange things done in the midnight sun" of the public domain

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NB - Note update below ! There's a good CBC article on the public domain quoting two of my favourite PD crusaders, Wallace McLean and...
Monday, January 12, 2009

Textbook Infringement

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There's a very interesting story in today's Toronto Star about the copying of whole textbooks that are required by post secondary ...
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Obama's Canadian Visit and Copyright

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Michael Geist has beaten me to the punch on the subject of the forthcoming Obama visit to Canada. Naturally, copyright lobbyists in Washin...

ET - The Perennial - and Libel Tourism

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ET - the Perennial - is calling once again. There’s a recent op-ed piece in the Wall Street Journal from a couple of American lawyers calli...
Friday, January 09, 2009

Kraft v. Euro -Excellence #2 Settled

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The sequel involving the same parties to the 2007 Kraft v. Euro-Excellence case decided in the Supreme Court of Canada has been settled, a...
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Tuesday, January 06, 2009

IP in Canada - Year End 2008/New Year's 2009 Thoughts

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Here’s my year end/New Year’s take on Canadian IP law, with a little international colour as it affects Canada. The action in Canada was mos...
Thursday, January 01, 2009

Public Domain Day 2009

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The ever redoubtable and incorrigibly public-domain-loving Wallace McLean has once again augmented the database of copyright expired lumina...