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El Matón del “Copyright”

The BBC offers a Spanish version of my recent column on the USTR's Special 301 report.

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May 17, 2007 Comments are Disabled News

AustLII in Need of Funding

AustLII, which transformed access to legal information in Australia over a decade ago, is facing a funding crunch.  Learn more here.

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May 17, 2007 Comments are Disabled News

CRTC Approves Increased Commercial Skipping

The CRTC has released a series of television regulation decisions that include a gradual removal of advertising restrictions (yet another mechanism to encourage YouTube and Tivo use), a deadline for digital broadcasts (by August 2011), and the rejection of a broadcast demand for a new fee on cable and satellite […]

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May 17, 2007 Comments are Disabled News

Canada Talks, Scotland Acts

While Library and Archives Canada talks about a digital strategy, the National Library of Scotland launches a major project to digitize its archives.

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May 17, 2007 Comments are Disabled News

Pandora Offline in Canada

Earlier this month, I blogged that Pandora would be blocking Canadian users.  While the company was able to stave that off for a couple of weeks, yesterday it started blocking Canadian users.

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May 17, 2007 8 comments News