Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Update on Getty Images

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Getty Images is still threatening people, so it seems from comments that continue to come in on my earlier posting on Watching Getty Images ...
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Monday, November 10, 2008

Apotex v. Sanofi - Canadian Supreme Court Decision

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Last week on November 6, 2008, the Supreme Court of Canada delivered it judgment in an important patent case concerning "selection pat...

WIPO Copyright Activity

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The week long SCCR meeting at WIPO has just concluded and William New reports on it in some detail here. The proposed broadcasters' righ...
Sunday, November 09, 2008

Does Apple Compete with IBM?

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Does Apple compete with IBM? According to a former IBM employee recently hired by Apple: "To the best of my knowledge, IBM does not de...

What Happened to SNL in Canada?

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It now seems that you can't get there from here when it comes to getting from Canada to Saturday Night Live on the Web. One gets an erro...
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Friday, November 07, 2008

Constitutional Challenge to RIAA's statutory damage claims...

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The well known Harvard professor Charlie Nesson is leading the charge on a challenge to the constitutionality of the statutory damage provis...
Wednesday, November 05, 2008

The Obama Effect on IP

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IP-Watch has a good analysis of the likely direction of the Obama administration here. IP-Watch also speculates on some Obama appointments ...
Friday, October 31, 2008

WIPO SCCR Meeting Geneva November 3-7, 2008

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The WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) will be meeting next week in Geneva. It gets together typically about twi...
Thursday, October 30, 2008

Tony Clement - New Minister of Industry

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Congratulations to Tony Clement on his appointment as the new Minister of Industry. Minister Clement previously was the Minister of Health. ...
Tuesday, October 28, 2008

A Victory for Freer Expression Online in Canada

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Off topic but important news: The courageous Jon Newton and his excellent libel lawyer, Dan Burnett , have won an important victory in BC ag...
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Google Settlement

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Big news from the USA - re the Google Books litigation. There is a big settlement. Here are some links: Some details about the agreement is ...
Monday, October 27, 2008

SOCAN's Tariff 22 - the latest chapter

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The Copyright Board has finally released its decision this past Friday, October 24, 2008 on the remainder of SOCAN’s Internet based “Tariff...
Wednesday, October 22, 2008

$54 million pants suit appeal

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Ex-Judge Roy Pearson of Washington, DC apparently had his appeal heard today in his $54 million dollar great American pants suit. One must a...
Friday, October 17, 2008

On Poetic Justice and Subsidies

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Countless reputable pundits and reports have pointed out that the Conservative Government may have missed its opportunity to get a majority ...
Thursday, October 16, 2008

Audting Access Copyright?

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As I mentioned yesterday , the League of Canadian Poets is on the case about Access Copyright, a collective that has over $37 million in mo...
Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Improper DMCA Takedowns and US Presidential Campaigns

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EFF - bless them - is onto the use of improper DMCA takedown notices that stifle free speech in the course of the current US Presidential el...
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Creators v. Access Copyright

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The League of Canadian Poets is on the attack against Access Copyright, an organization with more than $37 million in annual revenues belie...
Thursday, October 09, 2008

US v. China - WTO

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GENEVA (Reuters) - The World Trade Organization (WTO) has found in China's favor in two out of three counts in a case involving prote...
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Wednesday, October 08, 2008

Liberal Position on Bill C-61

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According to a Toronto Star report of an interview with Denis Coderre, the Liberal Heritage critic: The Liberals would also ditch the alrea...
Tuesday, October 07, 2008

Conservative Party Platform on Copyright

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Today's Conservative Party platform states: A re-elected Conservative Government led by Stephen Harper will reintroduce federal copyrigh...
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Monday, October 06, 2008

Speeches by Chairman of Copyright Board Now Posted

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The Copyright Board has recently posted on its useful website three 2008 speeches by its Chairman, Justice William Vancise. These are as fo...
Friday, October 03, 2008

Update on File Sharing Litigation

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The EFF has a well documented and up to date analysis of the RIAA's litigation campaign against ordinary folks and how and why it hasn...
Wednesday, October 01, 2008

RCMP Comments in USA on Canadian Copyright

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Jack Kapica of the Globe and Mail has an interesting story about recent comments by an RCMP spokesperson at an American Bar Association con...
Tuesday, September 30, 2008

To Plagiarize, "Research" or "Shade Your Eyes"?

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There has been much discussion today of plagiarism in the context of the Canadian election, with accusations reported around the world of ...
Monday, September 29, 2008

NDP on Copyright and the 2008 Election

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The subject of copyright still remains apparently a non-issue at the leader level. The NDP does at least mention it in their Platform , as ...
Friday, September 26, 2008

VANOC's Excessive IP Efforts

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There’s a big fluff over VANOC’s trade-mark application for WITH GLOWING HEARTS. See the Globe and Mail story, for which I was interviewed,...
Thursday, September 25, 2008

No DOJ Subsidies for RIAA etc. Litigation

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The Bush administration has stopped an attempt by the RIAA, MPAA and others to turn the US Department of Justice into a taxpayer funded civ...

No Making Available Right in USA + Statutory Damages Dissed

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In a very important decision in the Jammie Thomas case , Judge Michael J. Davis, the Chief Judge of the U. S. District Court for the Distri...
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Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Canadian Election & Copyright

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Things are starting to get interesting in the Canadian election concerning copyright and culture. Jack Layton and the NDP are offering a $20...

New Zealand Considers Allowing Satire and Parody

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New Zealand is now considering an explicit provision in its copyright legislation to allow for satire and parody. This follows a recent ame...
Thursday, September 18, 2008

Supremes Won't Hear Ringtones Case

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The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that it won't hear an appeal concerning the ringtones tariff. See my previous posting for what ...

RIAA Outdoes Itself

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Just when you think that things cannot get much crazier in the USA, they just have. The RIAA is now trying to sanction Ray Beckerman, a terr...

ACTA - EFF Sues USTR

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The redoubtable EFF has sued the secretive and determined USTR over its allegedly insufficient disclosure under the US Freedom of Informatio...
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Monday, September 15, 2008

Ringtones - Supremes to Rule on Leave Application

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We shall find out this Thursday, September 18, 2008 shortly after 9:45 AM whether the Supreme Court of Canada (hereinafter “the Supremes”) w...
Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Bill C-61 - Dead or Undead?

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Is Bill C-61 really "dead", now that an election has been called? Or is it really in the realm of " The Undead "? Sinc...
Tuesday, September 02, 2008

Copyright as an Election Issue?

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Gilles Duceppe, the Bloc Québécois leader, met with Prime Minister Harper on August 30. According to the CBC and the Montreal Gazette , cop...
Thursday, August 28, 2008

Bill C-61 and the [posssible] Election

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Don Martin - a columnist who is regarded by many as being very sympathetic to the Conservative Government and well informed on how it oper...
Monday, August 25, 2008

Made Worse in Canada

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"Made in Canada" or "Made Worse in Canada"? The phrase I coined on June 12, 2008 - the day that Bill C-61 was introduced...

CLA Advocacy Material on Bill C-61

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The CLA has posted some advocacy material on Bill C-61, available here. Although the suggested letter contains some good points, I'm fr...
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Friday, August 22, 2008

Troubles in Brussels

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The often playful IPKat has a very serious and gloomy report on Bernt Hugenhotltz' open letter to Dr. Jose Manuel Barroso, President o...
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Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Copyright as Olympic Censorship Tool - Updated

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Slashdot has a story about how the IOC invoked the DMCA to take down a pro-Tibet video that presumably offended it by showing the famous fi...
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Sunday, August 03, 2008

The End of William Patry's Blog

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Yesterday was a dark day for copyright law, and even bigger issues such as the ability of passionate and informed scholars to use the blogos...
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Saturday, August 02, 2008

ACTA Secrecy Concerns Increase

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On July 28, 2008 Michael Geist reported in the Toronto Star that: According to documents obtained under the Access to Information Act and re...
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