Must Reads

• Swedish Minister To Demand ACTA Be Opened Up

  Swedish Communications Minister Åsa Torstensson visits Washington, DC next week with a meeting with the USTR on the agenda. According to a press release , the message on ACTA will be simple: open up the process to the public and do not adopt a three-strikes model. Nov.27/09Comments (5)

• Tapscott on the UK Digital Economy Bill

  Don Tapscott, who notes that he coined the phrase digital economy, argues that the UK Digital Economy bill is deeply flawed. Nov.27/09Comments (0)

• EU Files Responses To ACTA Internet Chapter

  The European Union has filed its comments to the ACTA Internet chapter. While the existence of the document has been made public, the document itself has not. Nov.27/09Comments (2)

• UK Law Firm Planning to File Thousands Of P2P Demand Letters

  The BBC reports that a UK law firm plans to file at least 15,000 legal demand letters earlier next year against people suspect of file sharing.  The letters will threaten lawsuits but offer settlement terms of hundreds of pounds per person. Nov.27/09Comments (1)

• Countering the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement

  Jonathan Penney provides a New Zealand perspective on why and how people in that country should oppose ACTA. Nov.26/09Comments (0)

• No Response to Search Engine Request for Clement ACTA Interview

  TVO's Search Engine reports that the response to its request for an interview with Industry Minister Tony Clement on ACTA has been "ambivalent and evasive." Nov.26/09Comments (5)

• Guardian on UK Digital Economy Bill

  The Guardian's editorial on the UK bill pulls no punches:
  
  The digital economy bill is misnamed. A more honest title for the legislation, recently introduced in the Lords, would be the copyright protection and punishment bill. It is less about creating the digital businesses of the 21st century than protecting the particular 20th century business models used in music and film. The bill is narrow in vision but dangerously broad in creating sweeping ministerial powers to punish digital pirates. It boils Digital Britain down to three Ms - media, music and movies - myopically ignoring the pioneers of new technology, and showing a blind spot for all creativity outside the so-called creative industries. Nov.25/09Comments (0)

• Billy Bragg on Music and Copyright

  Billy Bragg and Charlie Angus hosted a press conference last week that included Safwan Javed of Wide Mouth Mason (and the Canadian Music Creators Coalition) and Don Quarles of the Songwriters Association of Canada.  The event attracted some media attention and a video of the event has now been posted online. Nov.25/09Comments (0)

• Weatherall on ACTA in Australia

  Kim Weatherall has published an updated Australian analysis of what ACTA would mean in that country. Nov.25/09Comments (0)

• Court Orders Rogers To Stop Network Reliability Claims

  A B.C. court has ordered Rogers to stop advertising claims that it has "Canada's Most Reliable" wireless network. The ruling came following a lawsuit launched by Telus challenging the claims. Nov.25/09Comments (3)