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“Lib Dem peers are seeking to amend the Digital Economy Bill to allow site blocking for copyright infringement”, the Open Rights Group ’s Jim Killock (right) posted on Tuesday, going on: “This could lead to unwanted blocking of (...)
5 Mar. 2010 | 1 comment | Jon Newton
The French parliament today formally became an official corporate copyright enforcement agency, funded by the French people, grinding the motto liberté, égalité, fraternité into the dirt and proving when French citizens elected president Nicolas Sarkozy, (...)
23 sep. 2009 | | Jon Newton
The national copyright consultation is down to the final five weeks and over the past week, there has been a growing number of op-eds and public commentary that provide Canadians with a good sense of what the traditional copyright lobby is pushing for as (...)
11 aoû. 2009 | | Michael Geist
Apparently, Canada’s copyright laws needs need to be overhauled because, after all, we’re a haven for digital pirate - at least that’s how the copyright-crazed Americans like to describe us. Last year, the federal government started to (...)
29 mai. 2009 | | Mark Evans
Patricia Akester of the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law at the University of Cambridge has released a comprehensive empirical study on the effects of DRM on copyright exceptions relied upon by libraries, educators, and consumers. The (...)
29 mai. 2009 | | Michael Geist
It seems the circle has been completed for France which, at the end of the 1700s, saw a revolution meant to free the people . But now, Liberty, Equality, Fraternity have gone out the window. First HADOPI, and now Loppsi 2, meaning 1984 has arrived in (...)
22 mai. 2009 | | Jon Newton
There has been a lot of buzz around both the guilty verdict and now the judge’s alleged conflict of interest in the trial of the Pirate’s Bay operators. For those not in the now The Pirate’s Bay is a search engine - like Google - that (...)
29 avr. 2009 | | David Eaves
The French national assembly has to its lasting shame caved in to corporate music and movie industry pressure to pass an anti-P2P, anti-file sharing, anti-consumer bill. Its final acceptance would turn the country into a virtual copyright enforcement (...)
6 avr. 2009 | | Jon Newton
More ferret-like twists and turns on the part of one of the RIAA’s hit lawyers in the Jammie Thomas vs the RIAA case. Jammie you’ll recall, is the only person out of 40,000 potential victims on the wrong end of RIAA file sharing subpoenas (...)
2 mar. 2009 | | Jon Newton
Things just got a lot worse over in Obamaland. Or better, if you happen to be Vivendi Universal (France), Sony BMG (Japan and Germany), EMI (Britain), and Warner Music (US). Regular readers will remember the name Donald Verrilli (right). He’s a (...)
6 fév. 2009 | 1 comment | Jon Newton
Ominously, president Barack Obama’s shiny new White House is already starting to look like a corporate division, in some respects. “For his vice president, Barack Obama chose Joe Biden (right), a senator with a long history of aiding the (...)
27 jan. 2009 | | Jon Newton
When the word ‘free’ crops up in anything even remotely connected to Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony BMG, you know it’ll be anything but. Now, reporting from the Midem corporate orgy staged (words used advisedly) in (...)
21 jan. 2009 | | Jon Newton
You know how the RIAA has supposedly seen the light and isn’t suing Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony BMG customers on behalf of Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony BMG any more ? That’s just Big 4 PR BS for media (...)
19 jan. 2009 | | Jon Newton
The election of Barack Obama has led to considerable speculation about what the change in administration might mean for U.S. pressure on Canada on intellectual property issues. If the MPAA - the lead Hollywood lobbyist - has anything to say about it, the (...)
12 déc. 2008 | | Michael Geist
The low-life RIAA attack on transplant patient Ciara Sauro is doing the rounds online and off. Nineteen-year-old Ciara has pancreatitis and needs an islet cell transplant. And while she waits, medical bills are piling up, said a p2pnet post. But, (...)
9 Dec. 2008 | | Jon Newton
Within 24 hours of President Bush signing a “good old boys” copyright bill, John McCain’s campaign is asking YouTube to review its take down policies when somebody complains of copyright violations. It is such a strange world in which we (...)
16 oct. 2008 | | Terry Heaton
Pretty big news out of Brussels. The European Commission has proposed to extend copyright on sound recordings to 95 years from 50 years. (The term for compositions will remain at 70 years.) The asterisk here is that recordings can switch hands after 50 (...)
17 jui. 2008 | | Coolfer
My weekly technology law column (Toronto Star version, homepage version) examines the role that U.S. pressure played leading up to the introduction of Bill C-61 last week. I argue that the bill is the result of an intense public and private campaign waged (...)
16 jui. 2008 | | Michael Geist
I’m not one to read popular business books, but on a recent trip I decided to pick up Tim Ferriss’, The 4-Hour Workweek. With all of the cultural momentum around the book, it’s #6 on the New York Times Hardcover Advice Bestseller List (...)
21 avr. 2008 | | John Winsor
Very bad news for American parents : Hollywood has succeeded in penetrating 20,000 schools in nearly 60,000 classrooms in 10 states. Like their counterparts in the corporate music industry, the major studios have been unable to come to grips with (...)
7 mar. 2008 | | Jon Newton
Tennessee lawmaker Steve Cohen was all set to introduce an amendment to the entertainment cartel’s College Opportunity and Affordability Act of 2007. The legislation wants to make schools answerable to the movie and music industries with severe (...)
27 fév. 2008 | | Jon Newton
My weekly technology law column (Toronto Star version, Vancouver Sun version, Ottawa Citizen version, homepage version) focuses on last week’s big copyright reform development - the emergence of the Business Coalition for Balanced Copyright. I note (...)
21 fév. 2008 | 1 comment | Michael Geist
The National Post devotes its entire masthead editorial today to the copyright debate. The piece is critical of the U.S. DMCA, describing it as a "disaster" and warning against the "incredible absurdities" created by anti-circumvention (...)
19 fév. 2008 | | Michael Geist
In the US, the rights of consumers are being steadily whittled away as the entertainment cartels in particular strive to increase their control over ‘product’. There, things have almost reached a point where anyone who buys a movie or music (...)
17 jan. 2008 | 1 comment | Jon Newton
With America’s Jeffrey Howell case in the background, limited copying of one, but only one, CD might soon be officially sanctioned in Britain. “Copying music from a CD to a home computer could be made legal under new proposals,” says the (...)
9 jan. 2008 | | Jon Newton
There are two very important op-eds today on copyright reform in the Canadian media. Charles Moore, a freelance writer from Nova Scotia, argues in the Moncton Times and Transcript that the "Government is Wrong-Headed on Copyright." The article (...)
8 jan. 2008 | | Michael Geist
The media reverberations from the copyright delay continue with some very significant mainstream media coverage. CBC’s The National covered the story on Tuesday (video on the Facebook group and YouTube but I haven’t seen a more accessible (...)
21 déc. 2007 | | Michael Geist
As many readers of this blog will know, last Saturday night I started a Facebook group called Fair Copyright in Canada. I sent an invitation to 100 or so "Facebook friends" in the hope that some would join and that we could create a useful (...)
10 déc. 2007 | | Michael Geist
AAAAAAeeeeeeaaaaaEEEEEaaaaaaaaaaaaa Or something like that. It’s Tarzan’s yodel. They’d like to be able to copyright it but apparently, they’re having a little trouble, “because it is almost impossible to represent (...)
31 oct. 2007 | 1 comment | Jon Newton
Ohio University, formerly the worst-hit in the RIAA’s attack on senior American Schools under the so-called ’settlement plan’, is patting itself on the back. Where once the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) (...)
3 mai. 2007 | | Jon Newton
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