Tuesday, July 07, 2009

Prioriites in Antitrust Law?

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There's some remarkable competition and antitrust law coincidences afoot at the moment: In the the US Department of Justice is waking u...
Saturday, July 04, 2009

The SAC Double Negative Option Celestial Jukebox

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Eddie Schwartz/bluepower.com The quest for a viable "Alternative Compensation System" to deal with perceived problems involving P...
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Canadian Copyright Consultations - Summer of 2009? You Betcha!

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A Town Hall Meeting (The Guardian) No - she didn't resign to devote herself to copyright reform in Canada. But, speaking of town hall me...

Update on BNN Copyright Clips

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I've just learned from Michael Geist's update that there is an important follow up to a story about take downs from YouTube at the ...
Friday, July 03, 2009

From Girl Scouts to Ringtones

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ASCAP THEN AND NOW In the USA, ASCAP, who once tried to license Girl Scouts for singing around camp fires, is now taking the position tha...
Monday, June 29, 2009

More on Myths about Myths about Downloading

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Here's a fairly detailed guest blog on the influential SLAW site about downloading in Canada. It's by Neil Melliship of Clark, Wil...
Saturday, June 27, 2009

Posner's Peculiar Proposal

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Judge Richard Posner, one of the most prolific, provocative and brilliant judges, legal scholars and public intellectuals of all time (and ...
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MORE ACCESS EXCESS

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If one thinks that it’s excessive for Access Copyright (“AC”) to get $5.16 per K-12 student for a total of about $20 million a year not coun...

Canada's Intervention at WIPO SCCR meeting

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This is a summary of Canada's intervention at the WIPO SCCR meeting May 25-29, 2008. As can be seen, Canada is more positive about the c...
Friday, June 26, 2009

Excess Access Copyright Tariff Ruling

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While both sides will no doubt claim some element of victory, the Copyright Board's decision today in the K-12 reprography matter is ba...
Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Copyright Reform Back on Course?

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There's very encouraging news from Michael Geist , who was at Monday's exclusive government digital agenda pow wow. There are stron...
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A Canadian Copyright Policy Laundering Flow Chart

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Michael Geist/The Register Michael Geist has a thorough and excellent analysis today of the role of CRIA and CMPDA in copyright "pol...
Friday, June 19, 2009

Boyle on Obama Admin Opposition to Rights for the Blind, etc.

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Jamie Boyle - who was one of the pioneers of the articulate and erudite academic movement in favour of balanced copyright has a good piece i...
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Thursday, June 18, 2009

RIAA: Be Careful What You Wish For

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Various tweets from Minnesota confirm that a federal jury as just returned an astonishing verdict of $1,920,000 against Jammie Thomas for d...
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Wednesday, June 17, 2009

More Myths about Myths about File Sharing

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250,000 legal and levy free P2P songs for less than CDN $200? Can CRIA seriously say it isn't so? Richard Pfohl of CRIA has taken on Pr...
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Still More Conference Board of Canada Fallout

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The Conference Board has taken the next step in damage control arising from its recent plagiarism scandal . Here's today's stateme...
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Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Digital Britain Final Report

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Lord Carter's Digital Britain report can be found here. More in due course. HK
Thursday, June 11, 2009

Scotch Whisky Association's Appeal Attempt Scotched by Supremes

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The Scotch Whisky Association's attempt to get leave to appeal the very sensible decision of the Federal Court of Appeal has - as I pre...
Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Three Strikes Strikes Out

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The French Three Strikes law has stuck out in that country's Constitutional Court - - le Conseil constitutionnel: AFP - France's hi...
Tuesday, June 09, 2009

"Copyright War" Online Program Today

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REMINDER: I will be participating today Tuesday June 9 at 3:15 EST in a day long session of online interactive presentations on Copyright Wa...