copyright

Jim Prentice backpeddles on Canadian DMCA

December 11, 2007

The paper had some very good news this morning on copyright in Canada. Jim Prentice, the minister responsible for the bill, has delayed tabling it in the House of Commons. The reason is apparently the outpouring of protest from individual Canadians. In a matter of days, over 14,000 people have joined Dr. Michael Geist's Fair [...]

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The Government of Canada is about to make a serious mistake on Copyright.

December 4, 2007

Shortly the Canadian parliament will have legislation introduced which is similar to the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act. You can find out more about this on Michael Geist's blog (the Canadian DMCA: What You Can Do), and via the Facebook group that he has created – the Fair Copyright group. Geist is an advocate for fair [...]

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Calling the kettle black

February 21, 2007

Writing as a guest for the BBC, Ottawa Law Professor Michael Geist does a good job at poking holes in the latest broadside from the US copyright lobby.Â Â What I am referring to, of course, is last week’s release by the IIPA lobby groupÂ of their latest “Blacklist” of international copyright villains.Â They accuse Canada, and [...]

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Who’s the ARS now? Google vs. Miro

April 21, 2006

Yesterday I had no idea who Spanish Artist Joan Miro was. But I found out, after Google paid tribute. It was Miro’s birthday. I saw Google’s tribute logo (at left), wondered about it (it’s a bit of a game with Google to guess what their logos represent), and clicked through. Yesterday, Google also acceded to requests to remove [...]

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Kodak vs. the Internet

October 3, 2005

Bob Frankston’s piece Kodak vs. the Internet is worth a read. The world predicted by Larry Lessig in Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace is coming to be. N.B. If you haven’t read this book, you should. Written for the legal layman, it’s a populist look at the impact of technology on law. So, although [...]

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Calling all Canadians

September 1, 2004

A petition to preserve Canada’s copyright laws is currently making its way around the net. You can find it here. I am printing it off and signing on. Perhaps in our country we can thwart the RIAA and the MPAA in order to leave ourselves with some semblance of fair use.

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