Thursday, September 30, 2010

Access Copyright Strikes Back re Status of 99 of 101 Objectors

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Here’s an update on the Access Copyright (“AC”) proposed tariff that would, if approved, result in a cost if about $60 million a year to the...
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Wednesday, September 29, 2010

CMEC Supreme Court of Canada leave to appeal application

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CMEC has now filed an application for leave to appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada, available here. It has rightly pointed out the inco...
Tuesday, September 28, 2010

2nd Circuit Court of Appeals (USA) denies public performance rights for downloads

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The 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals in the USA, which along with the 9th Circuit, is the most important American appeal court for copyright pur...
Thursday, September 23, 2010

KEI @ WIPO re Canada & a Treaty for the Blind

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Here's the KEI statement just delivered at the WIPO General Assemblies meeting. It concludes with a rather provocative comment on Canad...

Minister Moore on a "really toxic and, frankly, really dumb" iPod "tax"

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The Hon. James Moore said in Parliament yesterday: This idea of imposing a new tax on iPods and MP3 players is not a new idea because there ...
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Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Pandora - you can't get there from here.

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Pandora is an apparently terrific "legal" music service that we can't get in Canada - an all too familiar theme. For example...
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Bill C-32 and the Parliamentary Committee Process

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The process of making legislation is often compared to the manufacture of sausage. It is probably better not to see how it gets made. Copyri...
Monday, September 20, 2010

The Wonder of Stevie @ WIPO

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In what must have been a magical moment, the legendary blind musician Stevie Wonder today addressed the WIPO General Assembly on the need fo...
Wednesday, September 08, 2010

ACTA, “Ex Officio” Enforcement, and Parallel Imports

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In the latest ACTA leaked text , it’s disappointing to see that Canada is endorsing the following proposal on “ ex offic io” border enforcem...
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Saturday, September 04, 2010

More Decisions from Judicial Review of Copyright Board Decisions

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The Federal Court of Appeal (“FCA”) rendered two (or was it three? - see below) further decisions dated September 2, 2010 flowing from the ...

What does "educational" mean?

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Many are rather nervous about the implications of including the word "education" in the proposed revision of the fair dealing pro...
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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