Saturday, November 21, 2009

USA Treaty Priorities?

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It's been widely reported via Reuters that: Somalia has announced it plans to ratify a global treaty aimed at protecting children, le...
Monday, November 16, 2009

Longer Copyright Term and Disincentives

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Here's an economics paper by Francisco Alcalá (Universidad de Murcia) and Miguel González-Maestre (Universidad de Murcia) that is getti...
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Sunday, November 15, 2009

Scary Friday the 13th Interview

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Here's a seriously scary ill-informed interview on CTV Power Play ironically on Friday the 13th at about the 3:30 mark with with for...
Thursday, November 05, 2009

Canadian Copyright Collectives and the Copyright Board After 20 Years: Does the System Serve its Purpose?

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The following is my article in somewhat more convenient form on the above subject from the Hill Times Policy Briefing on Copyright publish...
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ACTA - Certificate of Entitlement

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Wednesday, November 04, 2009

ACTA - Time to Walk Away?

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canada.com David Gonczol, Ottawa Citizen Here's Jamie Love in the Huffington Post on the ACTA leaks story broken by Michael Geist. Here...
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Tuesday, November 03, 2009

Chairman Vancise on the Courts and Copyright Policy in Canada

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(Copyright Board of Canada) The Chairman of the Copyright Board, Justice William Vancise, gave what has become his traditional annual spee...

The Future IP Czar

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A hearing will take place tomorrow at 2:00 PM to confirm the appointment of Victoria Espinel, nominated to nobody's surprise by Presiden...

UNCITRAL security interests consultation update

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Canada is off once again to Vienna to chair the UNCITRAL initiative on security interests. The Canadian delegation is now in Vienna from Nov...
Monday, November 02, 2009

The 10th Anniversary of the WIPO UDRP

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Congratulations to WIPO and DG Francis Gurry and Director Erik Wilbers on the 10th anniversary of WIPO's UDRP ("Uniform Domain Name...

Hill Times Policy Briefing on Copyright

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The Hill Times has a policy briefing on copyright available here. This includes statements from both Ministers and pieces by Charlie Ang...
Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Von Finckenstein on Throttling

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Here is an amazing interview with Konrad von Finckenstein, the Chairman of the CRTC, with Jesse Brown of Search Engine, a remarkable prog...

Lord Mandelson, a.k.a. The Terminator's Last Strike?

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Lord Mandelson in the UK seems eager to emulate France with a three strikes regime, notwithstanding criticism from no less than MI5. The ...
Monday, October 26, 2009

UNCITRAL SECURITY INTERESTS GOC CONSULTATION

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Following my earlier posting of October 15, 2009 , the communication below has been received this past Friday October 22, 2009 from Ms. Sab...
Thursday, October 22, 2009

More Tortuous Torture Tales

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Well, it seems that the American's use of music to torture alleged terrorist prisoners is an issue that just won't go away. It has ...
Wednesday, October 21, 2009

CRTC Indecision on Net Neurtality ("Throttling")

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With respect, I cannot share the enthusiasm of Michael Geist , etc. for today's CRTC decision on Net Neutrality ("Throttling"...
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Tuesday, October 20, 2009

A Real Canadian Copyright Debate

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The Canadian Constitution Foundation ("CCF") October 3, 2009 panel on copyright moderated by Arnold Ceballos and featuring myself ...
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Friday, October 16, 2009

Towards a Parody Consensus?

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Glenn Kauth has an article in the current Canadian Lawyer magazine entitled Push and Pull of Copyright Reform. He quotes several lawyers, i...
Thursday, October 15, 2009

Canadian Un-Consultation re UNCITRAL Security Interests in IP Project

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Despite the fact that a Canadian government official from the Department of Justice has been chairing UNCITRAL's work on security intere...
Friday, October 09, 2009

On CRTC, Kindle, Copyright Board, Copyright & Controversy

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Michael Geist has unearthed the CRTC submission to the recent copyright consultation. It was apparently posted just yesterday, October 8, ...
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