Archive for January, 2005

Time for Canada to Create National Digital Library

Professor Geist's weekly Toronto Star Law Bytes column (Toronto Star version, HTML backup article, homepage version) returns with a new year's resolution — Canada should become the first country in the world to to create a comprehensive national digital library. The library, which would be fully accessible online, would contain […]

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January 10, 2005 Comments are Disabled Columns

National Web library do-able, affordable, visionary

In the mid-1990s, Ottawa established a bold new vision for the Internet in Canada. The centrepiece was a commitment to establish national Internet access from coast to coast to coast, supported by a program that would enable the country to quickly become the first in the world to connect every […]

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January 9, 2005 Comments are Disabled Columns Archive

Copyright and Privacy Issues in the News

Professor Geist comments on two of the hottest issues for the coming year — copyright and privacy. In a Silicon Valley North piece, he assesses the current reform situation, while in a Globe and Mail article he notes the issues raised by email privacy in the workplace.

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January 6, 2005 Comments are Disabled News

The Upcoming Copyright Clash

The Upcoming Copyright Clash, Literary Review of Canada (2005)

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January 1, 2005 Comments are Disabled Scholarship