Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Historic G-20 World IP Court Announcement Expected

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Michael Geist , Duncan Bucknell and Warwick Rothnie are reporting on a G20 agreement on a World Intellectual Property Court under the aeg...
Thursday, March 26, 2009

Future of Public Broadcasting - President Lacroix of CBC to Speak March 30, 2009

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Couchiching Ottawa Round Table The Future of Public Broadcasting in Canada With HUBERT T. LACROIX , President and CEO of CBC/Radio-Canada ...
Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Riding through the Glen to the Supreme Court of Canada?

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Readers may know about the recent decision of the Federal Court of Appeal concerning Glenora Distillers, which is a Canadian company locat...

Less and Less Privacy?

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Michael Geist has blogged about a controversial decision involving controversial parties that seems to suggest that, in Ontario, a plaintif...
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Tuesday, March 24, 2009

The Kiwi that Could Fly

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New Zealand is hardly a major world power. It's population is only 3.9 million and its GDP is only USD $98.9 billion at last report. But...
Monday, March 23, 2009

Obama Admin Supports Statutory Damages

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( Photo: Gray Whale Succumbs to Exxon Valdez Oil Spill, Latoucha Island, Alaska (John Gaps III / AP) As expected, though not as all had hope...

Kiwi Copyright Victory

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It takes a brave Government to admit a recent mistake - although in this instance the legislation was passed by the previous Government. So...
Friday, March 20, 2009

EU Sound Recording Term Extension Vote Delayed

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Big reported news from Europe. The vote scheduled for March 23, 2009 on copyright term extension for sound recordings from 50 to 95 years h...
Thursday, March 19, 2009

Obama and Diplomatic DRM

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Wow - the USA does seem to take DRM and TPM seriously! It seems that President Obama gave UK PM Gordon Brown a gift of 25 classic American m...
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Obama's Royalties

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President Obama made $2.5 million last year from his two popular books. And he has other big publishing plans, as is being widely reported....

Strange News Stories re VANOC and SITA

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First, the CBC story on VANOC using "copyright" law to stop ticket resellers. The CBC reports that: Organizers are also suing Coas...
Tuesday, March 17, 2009

ASCAP & Bernie Madoff?

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Q: What do ASCAP and Bernie Madoff have in common? A: The US federal prosecutor going after Bernie Madoff used to do work for ASCAP. His nam...

Kindling Patent Litigation

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As if Amazon hasn't had enough troubles lately with its Kindle 2 product, it has now been sued for patent infringement of this patent ...

Nesson's Apology

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In the increasingly stranger than fiction case of Sony v. Tenenbaum , Harvard Professor Charlie Nesson has filed a Notice to "apolo...
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Monday, March 16, 2009

NZ Government Runs For Cover on Copyright

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With friends like this, the RIAA, IFPI and MPAA hardly need enemies. The current NZ Government is clearly running for cover to distance its...
Sunday, March 15, 2009

"Digital Britain" Debacle?

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(Photo of Carter - The Guardian) (Photo of Lammy - Facebook} On Friday the 13th of March, 2009, news cam...
Thursday, March 12, 2009

ACTA FOIA Request FOILED

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Jamie Love of KEI reports in Huffington Post that their Freedom of Information Act ("FOIA") request for copies of ACTA documents h...
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Wednesday, March 11, 2009

More on Ticketmaster

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The issues around Ticketmaster may be a bit more complicated that the press has been reporting lately. The Wall Street Journal is reporting ...

Is Fairey's Use Fair Use?

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Associated Press has filed its very lengthy Answer and Counterclaim in Fairey's preemptive litigation. Here is is, courtesy of Ray Bec...
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Monday, March 09, 2009

Minister Moore and the PVR

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Minister of Canadian Heritage, James Moore, is one of the two federal ministers primarily responsible for copyright revision. He is 32 years...
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