Thursday, April 03, 2008

Reflections from Fordham - 2008

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The annual Fordham International Intellectual Property Law and Policy Conference has just taken place, as always The First Thursday and Fri...
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Tuesday, April 01, 2008

Life + 343 years

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Nicholas Poussin (1594-1665) was perhaps the greatest landscape painter - ever. There is currently a fabulous exhibition of his works at the...
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Friday, March 21, 2008

Canada, Israel, 301, Pro Patria and Pro Patry

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Bill Patry has a great blog today about Israel, Canada and the U.S. "301" watch list, or "wish list", as Bill calls it....
Thursday, March 20, 2008

Important Study on Limitations and Exceptions

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Here's a major new study on limitations and exceptions by Bernt Hugenholtz and Ruth Okediji. HK
Thursday, March 13, 2008

THE CMEC RED HERRING

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CMEC is spending a lot of political capital on its campaign for a special education exception for use of the internet, using reasoning tha...
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Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Israel's Clever Statutory Damages Provision

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Israel has come up with an interesting and clever twist on statutory minimum damages. It allows for damages of up to approximately the equi...
Tuesday, March 11, 2008

More on WIPO SCCR - "Do as we say, not as we do..."

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Here's the KEI report. Here's IP-Watch. In a nutshell, the Broadcasters' Rights proposed treaty isn't dead yet... And the a...
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Monday, March 10, 2008

WIPO Copyright Meeting

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Most of the Canadian delegation to the SCCR got stuck in Ottawa during the great March Break Blizzard and couldn't get to Geneva in tim...
Monday, March 03, 2008

The Copyright Board Says "No" to Record Industry Collectives for Interim Tariff

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The Copyright Board has just delivered a very interesting decision on February 29, 2008 concerning an application for an interim tariff b...
Saturday, March 01, 2008

Canadian Copyright Collectives and the Copyright Board

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I’ve just done a paper and given a CLE talk for the Law Society of Upper Canada entitled CANADIAN COPYRIGHT COLLECTIVES AND THE COPYRIGHT B...

More on Euro-Excellence v. Kraft

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I’ve just done a short talk on the Supreme Court of Canada’s important Kraft decision (in which I was involved) for a LSUC CLE programme on...
Monday, February 25, 2008

Professor Lessig Won't Go To Washington

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Professor Lessig has, not surprisingly, decided not to run from Congress. It's hard to stop a train, especially when the anointed rival ...

"Debunking the Song Tax"

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The National Post has another blunt editorial (at least its third this year) on copyright matters called " Debunking the Song Tax"...
Friday, February 22, 2008

Broadcasters' Rights Redux - The Return of the Undead?

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Never say never. Look at whassup in the Council of Europe. Just in time for the forthcoming WIPO SCCR meeting coming up March 10-12, 2008 i...
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The Copyright of Politics

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Hillary Clinton has desperately and wrongly (see Bill Patry) accused Obama of plagiarism. Potentially much more ironic and seriously seriou...

Copyright Board and CAB - Once More with Feeling!

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The Copyright Board has on February 22, 2008 now reiterated its conclusion from its decision October 14, 2005 to grant an increase of 32% ...

Michael Geist's EFF Award

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Congratulations to Michael Geist on his EFF award. Michael has done a superb job of teaching, challenging and pushing the envelope on issues...
Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Reefer Madness 2008

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Here's about two minutes of a leaked RIAA training video . It's too over the top to have been spoofied. According to its host, www.g...

Professsor Lessig Goes to Washington?

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Will Larry Lessig run for Congress? Maybe. Here's his site. Take a few minutes to watch his video. Very interesting indeed. And potentia...
Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Minutes of the Heritiage Committee re Proposed Special Joint Committee

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The Minutes of the Heritage Committee meeting in which the Committee indicated its desire to get involved in the proposed copyright bill and...
Monday, February 18, 2008

Politics More than Usual on the Hill

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The Standing Committee on Heritage Committee has just released an interesting Report calling for the following: The Standing Committee on ...
Friday, February 15, 2008

"More Than a Feelling" about Less Than Adequate Moral Rights in the USA

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Here's an example of why the USA needs moral rights in its copyright law. According to CTV: The chief songwriter and founder of the band...
Wednesday, February 13, 2008

IIPA, DMCA, 301, and Canadian Copyright Sovereignty

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Canada is now on the IIPA "priority watch list." This is clearly a blatant bullying attempt to influence domestic Canadian copyrig...
Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Rule Britannia - Three Strikes and You're Out?

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Rumours reported in no less than The Times of London indicate: People who illegally download films and music will be cut off from the inter...
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Q&A with Lawrence Lessig

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The always informative and often entertaining WSJ Law Blog has a Q&A with Lawrence Lessig and why he is morphing from copyright to ...
Monday, February 11, 2008

Canada, WIPO, and "certain obligations"

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If and when there is a new copyright bill introduced before a possibly imminent election, there will be much talk about the 1996 WIPO treati...
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Saturday, February 09, 2008

How J.K. Rowling can "Choke Creativity"

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There's an excellent article in the business section of the NYT today by Joe Nocera about J. K. Rowling's efforts to squash a small...
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Thursday, February 07, 2008

CPCC won't seek leave to appeal...

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CPCC has announced today that it will not seek leave to appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada from the January 10, 2008 decision of the Fed...
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Monday, February 04, 2008

Facebook at 40,000

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Sometime sson, quite possibly tonight, Michael Geist’s Facebook Fair Copyright for Canada (FCFC) site will hit 40,000 members. As I write th...
Sunday, February 03, 2008

Murray and Trosow on Canadian Copyright - A "Must" for educators and librarians

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There is a very useful new book entitled Canadian Copyright on Canadian copyright published late in 2007 that I really ought to have mentio...
Friday, February 01, 2008

CMEC & CARL

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The Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) has - predictably - supported CMEC's call for an exception for educational use of...
Thursday, January 31, 2008

The "A Contrario" Scenario & CMEC

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The Council of Ministers of Education Canada (CMEC) seems very confident that their prized exception for free use of the internet will be in...
Monday, January 28, 2008

IP Politics in the USA

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As everyone nervously watches the countdown to a new Canadian copyright reform bill, it is worth noting that IP politics is starting to ente...