Thursday, August 26, 2010

The "Education" Exception: Toronto Star Editorial of August 14, 2010 re "Copyright Bill Needs Change"

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The Toronto Star had an uncharacteristically ill-informed and misguided editorial on August 14, 2010 about copyright entitled Copyright Bil...
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Thursday, August 12, 2010

SOCAN "PREVIEWS" - A Preview of its Friday the 13th Leave Application?

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Tomorrow, Friday the 13th of August, is the deadline as I calculate it for SOCAN to file its leave to appeal ("LTA") application t...
Sunday, August 08, 2010

Access Copyright’s excessive $45 per university student proposed tariff - August 11, 2010 deadline

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This is the first in more to come about the proposed $45 per university student tariff - a more than 1,300 % increase over the current basi...
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Saturday, July 31, 2010

Is the SAC proposed internet music "tax" a stalking horse for SOCAN?

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(Above:Upper is Eric Schwartz/Bluepower.com & lower is Eric Baptise/SOCAN) Eddie Schwartz is renewing his call for a "reasonable m...
Thursday, July 29, 2010

Exit Strategy for Digital Locks Dilemma of Canada's Bill C-32

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(Harry Houdini in 1899 - Wikipedia) Pressure mostly from the American entertainment industry and, as a result, the US government itself has...

Muffin Maven Muzzled

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The Washington Post reports that a US Appeals Court has confirmed that "A food-industry executive armed with the secret to the "n...
Tuesday, July 27, 2010

ACTA "intercessional" [sic?] meeting in Washington, August 16, 2010

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It seems that there will be an "intercessional" [sic?] ACTA meeting in Washington, D.C. on August 16, 2010. Either somebody (USTR?...
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Saturday, July 24, 2010

Speaking of Statistics (and Copyright Blogs)

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Not surprisingly, IPKat s hows up yet again as the "first in show" copyright blog this week according to the Copyright Litigation ...
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Thursday, July 22, 2010

Bratz Beats Barbie

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(The Telegraph) Here's a remarkably witty and wise decision from Chief Judge Alex Kozinski of the US 9th Circuit - famed for his often...
Friday, July 16, 2010

The Privacy Policy Paradox - Census and Copyright Contrasted

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(Slyck) There is a certain paradoxical irony in the coincidence of the debate over abolishing the mandatory long form census form and Bill...
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Friday, July 09, 2010

Copyright Board Issues Commercial Radio Decision

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The Copyright Board of Canada today issued its long awaited Commercial Radio tariff and reasons. It is a 116 page bilingual decision that ...

DRM, TPM, WIPO, GDP, & G20

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Speaking of some well known acronyms. HT to MG re Brazil's proposed measure to protect users and consumers FROM excessive anti circumve...
Wednesday, July 07, 2010

On the Right to Read for Blind Persons and others with print disabilities

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As reported by KEI Online, below is Ambassador Gero's statement at the recent WIPO SCCR/20 meeting (June 21-24, 2010 in Geneva) on the...
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Friday, July 02, 2010

The “Balance” Brand in the Balance

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It’s kind of interesting, though hardly surprising, that the so-called “ Balanced Copyright for Canada ” coalition has finally admitted tha...
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Wednesday, June 23, 2010

"Extremism in the defence of liberty is no vice..."

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Barry Goldwater (1909-1998): I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderat...
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