Friday, December 14, 2007

A PUBLIC DOMAIN PROJECT FOR WIPO?

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It’s no secret that, for a long time, it has not been the best of times at WIPO. For whatever reason, WIPO has been singularly unsuccessful ...

Copyright as "Sexy"

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Ivor Tossell of the Globe and Mail has a very provocative article today about how copyright is now “cool” and “sexy.” The irony is that th...
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Thursday, December 13, 2007

COPYRIGHT INTERRUPTUS

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It started. It stopped. It almost happened. Twice in one week. The tabling that was supposed to take place on December 11, 2007 didn’t ...
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Wednesday, December 12, 2007

A Draft Bill on the Hill?

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Sam Trosow is a Professor at Western. He has quietly become quite well respected in his few years in Canada. He brings with him experience...
Sunday, December 09, 2007

Canada, Israel, DMCA and Sovereignty

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Michael Geist points to a very perceptive post by Ariel Katz who is at U of T about Israel's recent new copyright law. According to Ar...
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Richard Stallman on CDN DRM ("Digitial Restrictions Management")

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The legendary “free software” ("free" refers to “liberty, not price”) proponent, Richard Stallman , has contacted me and expresse...
Friday, December 07, 2007

Notice of Copyright Bill

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It's official. Notice has been given. Stand by on Tuesday. HK
Wednesday, December 05, 2007

CAUT Copyright Position

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The CAUT (Canadian Association of University Teachers) has sent a very good letter dated November 30, 2007 about copyright reform to Ministe...
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Monday, December 03, 2007

Copyright, Calfs, Cows, and Cash

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Deirdre McMurdy delightfully takes the copyright wars back to what some say is the beginning, i.e. the struggle between St. Finnian of Movil...

Demise of DRM and Moving On

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More evidence of that the rumors of the death of DRM in the record business are not being excessively exaggerated can be found here at Reu...
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Thursday, November 29, 2007

CBC Website - Questions for Minister Jim Prentice

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There's a terrific CBC web page for the excellent program "Search Engine" with questions for Minister Prentice about the fort...
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Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Sue Me, SUMI

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In the true spirit of the Olympic movement, Canadian style, one of the mascots is called "Sue Me". Oops, that should be "Sumi...
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Tuesday, November 27, 2007

Kapica on new copyright bill

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Jack Kapica of the Globe and Mail weights in on the expected bill here. HK
Monday, November 26, 2007

The Dire Dozen

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How many presidents and other senior honchos of big trade associations and collectives does it take to write one op-ed purporting to refute ...
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Saturday, November 24, 2007

The Tariff 22 JR Opening Parade

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The Tariff 22 Judicial Review ("JR") applications are lining up and the notices are being served. Judicial review is, in effect, a...
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Monday, November 19, 2007

SOCAN Tariff 22 Judicial Review

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Let the litigation begin... Again. As I predicted, there will be judicial review of the Copyright Board's Tariff 22 decision from a mo...

Access Copyright's Latest Test Case

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I’ve read the Statement of Claim in Access Copyright (The Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency) v. Business Depot. First, full disclosure. I’...
Friday, November 16, 2007

Canada's Stronger Copyright law - a baker's dozen examples

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Deirdre McMurdy has an article today on the imminent copyright bill, and the role of American Ambassador Wilkins and some of the other usua...
Thursday, November 15, 2007

Edgar Bronfman's "Epiphany" en route to Digital Damascus

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While on the road to the Digital Damascus, Edgar now sayeth: "We used to fool ourselves,' he said. "We used to think our conte...
Friday, November 09, 2007

Canadian Government's Decima P2P Survery

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The background stuff from Decima, commissioned by Industry Canada, which informed the recent important P2P study can be found here. This is...
Friday, November 02, 2007

Industry Canada P2P Study Shows Posititve Effects on Music Biz and more...

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A dynamite study just released from Industry Canada shows that P2P file sharing is good for the music business, and even more... Here's ...
Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Hong Kong Leads the Way - Again

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Once again, Hong Kong shows that it leads the way, in certain respects at least. It has opened an official government intellectual property...
Saturday, October 27, 2007

William Patry on Fair Dealing in Canada

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Bill Patry has important words about Canada and fair dealing. Probably nobody knows more and has published more about the American law of fa...
Thursday, October 25, 2007

IMSLM has a life line - sort of....

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Michael has posted good but, alas, not great news on IMSLM. Project Gutenberg will come to rescue - but only as far as it can go under US l...
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Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Vaver Live today on Euro Excellence v. Kraft

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Tune in for a webcast at 1:00 PM today, Wednesday October 24, 2007 for Prof. David Vaver, formerly from Osgoode Hall Law School and now at O...
Tuesday, October 23, 2007

"ACTA" - a New Plurilateral Policy Platform

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A potentially important announcement from Washington , Brussels (EU) , and Ottawa (and doubtless elsewhere) today re a proposed Anti-Coun...
Monday, October 22, 2007

Universal Edition AG Lawyer Responds

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I have received a courteous e-mail from Mr. Ken Clark, the lawyer at Aird & Berlis who acts for Universal Edition AG. He has asked me ...

Über-Reaching C&D letter from Universal Edition’s CDN Lawyer

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Michael Geist has exposed a shocking - though not surprising given the kind of overreaching letters that some lawyers can write - example o...
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Saturday, October 20, 2007

More Media Coverage of "DMCA North" and Throne Speech

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There's a well balanced article by David George-Cosh on the reference to copyright in the Throne Speech in the Financial Post/National ...
Friday, October 19, 2007

"Tough Love" from Cary Sherman

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Here's a rather defensive and fulsome op-ed in CNET from Cary Sherman on "tough love" and why he believes that suing custome...
Thursday, October 18, 2007

The "Single Malt Tariff" - aged 12 years

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Twelve (12) years is a good length of time for a single malt Scotch (or Canadian Whisky) to mature. But, it is an extraordinarily long amo...
Wednesday, October 17, 2007

Teaser from the Copyright Board - SOCAN's Proposed Tariff 22

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The Copyright Board is teasing us today. Here’s an e-mail sent out earlier to the long list of counsel involved with SOCAN’s proposed Tarif...
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Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Copyright and Throne Speech

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Here's the speech. Copyright revision was mentioned briefly. That's good news. Even if a bill is not passed before the next electio...